Title: Japanese Imperial Army General Saski Description: Japanese Imperial Army General Saski, center, with his staff; he was in command of the troops who took possession of Ping Yang, Korea, in March 1904, early in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); 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); war began on February 10, 1904; Japan won several battles before U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) mediated truce talks in 1905; 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, films, Imperial Japan, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Russia, Japan, Japanese Empire, Korea, Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria, Manchurian Campaign (1904-1905), Motion pictures, movies, Mukden, Port Arthur, Manchuria, Korea, Ping Yang, Korea, Russia, Russian Empire, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Seoul, Korea, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, 1900s. Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 2775 x 1326 (3.68 MPixels) (2.09) Print Size: 23.5 x 11.2 cm; 9.3 x 4.4 inches File Size: 10.56 MB (11,071,194 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038134 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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