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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: World War I and World War II so transformed the maps of both Europe and Asia that discerning the influence of antecedent conflicts like the Russo-Japanese War can be ...

One hundred seventeen years ago, an indecisive regional war between Imperial Russia and Japan produced revolution within Russia. In January 1905, in the midst of the Russo-Japanese War (which began in ...

Russia could have had a rematch of one of its most "humiliating" military defeats, had it followed through with recently revealed plans for war with Japan last year. A whistleblower at Russia's ...

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch ...

A peace treaty between Russia and Japan that would bring an end to the Russo-Japanese War appeared to be an impossibility until mid-day on Monday, Aug. 29, 1905. After nearly three weeks of tough ...

Listen to the article read by the author. Just at the end of April, Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China offered to help negotiate a peaceful end to the war Russia has been waging against ...

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 ...

But we have had a president “solve” a war — and win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. When Theodore Roosevelt accomplished ...