Title: Imperial Japanese Army soldiers Description: Imperial Japanese Army soldiers advance through Korea in March, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); Japanese and Korean coolies (manual laborers) carry packs weighing fifty to seventy-five pounds on their backs that contain food, medicine, and other supplies; the Russo-Japanese War resulted from a long-standing aggressive policy of Russian Czar Nicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov; May 18, 1868-July 17, 1918) in the Far East that led to friction with Japanese Emperor Mutsuhito (AKA: The Meiji Emperor or The Mikado; November 3, 1852-July 30, 1912); Japanese Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Togo (Togo Heihachiro; January 27, 1848-May 30, 1934) sent torpedo boats to attack the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Manchuria, on February 8, 1904 and war was declared two days later; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks; Russia ceded to Japan the Liaodong Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin; Japan gained further interests in Korea and annexed the former kingdom in 1910; Russia and Japan promised to evacuate Manchuria in favor of China; two Japanese movies tell about the war: Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957), and Battle of Japan Sea (1969); the demise of the czar and his family is told in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971 UK films); Category: Russo-Japanese War Keywords: Battle of Chemulpo, Korea, China, coolies, films, Imperial Japan, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), manual laborers, Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Korea, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2700 x 1450 (3.91 MPixels) (1.86) Print Size: 22.9 x 12.3 cm; 9.0 x 4.8 inches File Size: 11.23 MB (11,779,390 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038125 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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