Russo-Japanese War: The Early 20th-Century War That Shocked the World and Led to Japanese Imperialism

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The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 emerged from the collision of two expanding empires in East Asia, where the ancient kingdom of Korea and the crumbling Qing Dynasty of China provided the contested territories that would determine whether European or Asian power would dominate the most populous region of the world. Russia's relentless expansion eastward across Siberia had brought the Tsarist Empire to the Pacific shores by the mid-seventeenth ...