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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of history’s most decisive naval battles, Japan obliterated Russia’s fleet at Tsushima, ending the Russo-Japanese War and signaling a new era in global power. This Kings and Generals ...

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 ...

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 ...