Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894-1943

The work outlines the great political and diplomatic changes induced by the emergence of the Japanese Empire on the international scene, starting “ad finem res”, that is, from the rapid operations Japanese military in Shanghai on December 8, 1941; therefore, the author focused on the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the multiple causes that led to the Anglo-Japanese alliance of January 1902 and on the long confrontation between Tokyo and the Russian Empire about Korea and Southern Manchuria, which resulted in a bloody war (1904-05) with extensive military, political, financial and social repercussions. Storry also does not forget to link these major events to internal contingencies and to the delicate problem of Japanese immigration into the United States. ( Amazon customer)