Between bushido and black humour: Stewart Lone looks beyond the idea of the impassive, self-sacrificing citizen to discover how ordinary Japanese people really reacted to the war with Russia, 1904-05.

History Today | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

ON SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1905, the treaty of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, brought to a close the nineteen-month war between imperial Japan and Tsarist Russia. Japan had started the war to prevent Korea falling under Russian hegemony. To this extent, it was successful. The war, however, was immensely expensive and had been fought on a vast scale: in March 1905, the last major land engagement at Mukden, northeast China, saw nearly half a million men confront each other over ten days in one of history's largest battles to date. The war also had extraordinary consequences for the modern ...

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