The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was a big deal at the time, and it is generally considered the first modern war. The world watched with rapt attention.

Still, the Russo-Japanese War may indeed have been a “regional” conflict, but Northeast Asia is a remarkably important region, home to three of the largest economies of the 21st century.

This war, often overlooked, would reshape global history and Asia's power balance. It's not 1941, but rather a lesser-known chapter—the Russo-Japanese War. Join us as we dive into this ...

The Russo-Japanese War begins, Feb. 8, 1904. President Theodore Roosevelt. By Andrew Glass 02/07/2017 11:59 PM EST.

The Japanese proposed each country carve up a sphere of influence in East Asia. Russia would dominate Manchuria, and Japan would dominate Korea. By 1904, the partitioning sparked a war.

A 1904 print shows sailors from the Japanese torpedo boat, Sazanami, boarding a Russian torpedo boat during a sea battle off Port Arthur, Manchuria, during the Russo-Japanese war. (Ryōzō Tanaka ...

Less than 40 years after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan began to rapidly modernize, it defeated Russia, one of the world’s great powers, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5.

The Russo-Japanese War commenced 110 years ago this February, lasting eighteen months before a US-brokered truce mercifully put it to rest. The war killed upwards of 125,000 people, ...

In fact, much as the Russo-Japanese War shaped the contours of the 20th-century world, so, too, may Putin’s calamitous invasion of Ukraine drive the forces that define the 21st.

For them that don't know the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 was, along with the Spanish-American War, a real watershed in terms of naval warfare, ...

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was a big deal at the time, and it is generally considered the first modern war. The world watched with rapt attention. In the story of this conflict, ...