Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against the behemoth Russia and its neutral fleet at Port Arthur, it marked the beg ...

This painting depitcs the destruction of Russian warships by the Japanese fleet in bombardment with heavy guns during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 and 1905. In the last decades of the nineteenth ...

PARIS — Fashion show producer Etienne Russo has returned to Europe over two months after being held in Japan for suspicion of cannabis smuggling. The founder of Villa Eugénie, who was absent from the ...

Last week we saw the Japanese launch a surprise attack on the Russians at Port Arthur and the early stages of the ensuing Russo-Japanese war. This week, we’ll look at the final stages of the war, ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over. The U.S. Navy can ...

Through analysis of changes in the passenger transport policies of national rail from the Russo-Japanese War to the Asia-Pacific War, this article provides insights into how war affected the shape of ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The setback that the Japanese dealt to the Russians in 1904-05 helped shape the contours of Asian politics for a century. (This article first appeared in 2014.) The Russo ...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev's visit in August 2015 to Iturup, one of the four islands contested by Japan and Russia, flared up a war of words between the two countries. Shortly after ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Founded in 1938 and published semiannually by Sophia University, Monumenta Nipponica (MN) is one of the oldest English-language ...

Conferences of the oriental species have precisely the same traits as those of occidental origin. The conference at Tokyo between Japan and Soviet Russia to effect a trade agreement and possible ...