Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Why? A small archipelago stretching between the ...

3. The sum of 200 million tael/liang was equivalent to 360 million yen at the time. This was 4.3 times as large as an annual budget of Japan then. Hiromi Tanida, Nichi-Ro Senso yari-kuri monogatari [A ...

As the first international conflict of the twentieth century, the Russo-Japanese War attracted much contemporary global interest. This text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the ...

It was immediately controversial that President Theodore Roosevelt, famous for vigorous military interventions, was the first ...

On Dec. 10, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize, winning the Nobel Peace Prize ...

“They might have thought that Japan couldn’t possibly lose because it had won the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.” According to Fukasawa, the “winners group” killed several people of ...

In many world history curricula, the study of modern Japan moves from the Meiji Restoration (1868) directly to the beginnings of World War II. If time allows, a quick overview of the Sino-Japanese and ...

In the 1930s, both the US and Japan thought war was inevitable, but despite warnings, Americans didn't believe the Japanese could strike Pearl Harbor ...

The Japan-Sakhalin Association ... 50 degrees north latitude became a Japanese territory following the Russo-Japanese War. Immigration was promoted and the population reached 400,000 at the ...