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Title: Japanese infantry troops

Description: Japanese infantry troops drilling in preparation for the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); Japanese soldiers had to bring their own rifle and field gun to the war; soldiers called each other "Nippon Denji" which means "Man of Japan," the term referring to Japanese youths of the acceptable physique and other qualities who had the good fortune to get into the army; soldiers had to be no more than five feet four or five inches tall; they received vigorous physical training which together with their short stature made them very mobile and agile in battles; the 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, Imperial Russia's stronghold on the Yellow Sea, on February 8-9, 1904, and also Russian ships across Korea Bay at Chemulpo Harbor, 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: films, Imperial Japan, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Japanese soldiers, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Man of Japan, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Nippon Denji, Port Arthur, Manchuria, rifles, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s.