Written as war broke out in 1904 by a Japanese historian trained at Yale, this book lays out the chain of events that led there: the forced return of the Liao-tung peninsula, the Cassini Convention and the Manchurian railway, the German seizure of Kiao-chau, Russia’s lease of Port Arthur, John Hay’s Open Door note, and the long struggle over Korea and Manchuria.
A clear contemporary statement of Japan’s case, valuable for students of East Asian diplomacy. Download the free EPUB.