conditions in Japan during what were crucial months in the Russo-Japanese war.Nish: SUEMATSU Kencho, a senior Japanese politician …, was sent to Europe at the start of the Russo-Japanese war in order to improve the image of Japan in European countries and … October 1904 and January 1905 in Japan, Korea and North China. His diary of the journey presents interesting background on …

as First Lord of the Admiralty (1900-5). Selborne's promotion of Britain's alliance with Japan was conditional on a close … about whether China would take part in the Russo-Japanese war. Finally under considerable outside pressure she declared … inevitably had a role in the war; and her people suffered much. The Portsmouth treaties that ended the war could only be …

On 6 February 1998 a symposium was held in STICERD on Aspects of the Russo-Japanese War at which two papers were … presented: 'The Japanese Military during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05: A Reconsideration of Command Politics and Public … Images', by Dr Lone, and 'British Observers of the Russo-Japanese War', by Dr Towle …