HIST 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tongmenghui, Korean Independence Movement, Durham Stevens
25 Feb 2017
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Was fought between the russian empire and the empire of japan over rival imperial ambitions in manchuria and korea. The major theatres of operations were the liaodong peninsula and mukden in southern. Manchuria and the seas around korea, japan and the yellow sea. Since the end of the first sino-japanese war in 1895, japan feared russian encroachment on its sphere of influence. Through threat of russian expansion, japan offered to recognize russian dominance in manchuria in exchange for recognition of korea as being within the. Russia refused and demanded korea north of the 39th parallel to be a neutral buffer zone between russia and japan. The japanese government perceived a russian threat to its strategic interests and chose to go to war. A naval base in liaodong province leased to russia by china. After negotiations broke down in 1904, the japanese navy opened hostilities by attacking the russian eastern fleet at port arthur in a surprise attack.
