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Russo-Japanese War

February 8, 1904 – September 5, 1905 · Port Arthur and Manchuria

Result Japanese victory

1904-1905 war between Russia and Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Japan opened with a surprise attack at Port Arthur, won at Mukden, and destroyed the Baltic Fleet at Tsushima. The Roosevelt-mediated Treaty of Portsmouth recognized Japan's interests in Korea and awarded it the Liaodong lease, the South Manchuria Railway, and southern Sakhalin; Japan's victory made it a great power.

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Japan
Russian Empire
Emperor Meiji belligerent leader Ōyama Iwao Yamagata Aritomo belligerent leader Yamamoto Gonnohyōe belligerent leader Terauchi Masatake belligerent leader Kuroki Tamemoto military commander Kodama Gentarō military commander Nogi Maresuke military commander
Nicholas II of Russia belligerent leader Alexei Kuropatkin belligerent leader Roman Kondratenko belligerent leader Anatoly Stessel military commander Mikhail Zasulich military commander Oskar Gripenberg military commander

Strength and losses

Japan Killed c. 80,378

Killed
34,000–52,623
Deaths
43,300–71,453
Wounded
146,032
Captured
74,369

Russian Empire Killed c. 71,453

Killed
c. 151,831

Units

First Army (Japan) 12th Division (Japan) 2nd Division (Japan) Imperial Guard Division Fourth Army (Japan) 10th Division (Japan) Imperial Japanese Army 13th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 14th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 15th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 16th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 6th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 8th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Second Army (Japan) 3rd Division (Japan) 4th Division (Japan) Third Army (Japan) 11th Division (Japan) 1st Division (Japan) 7th Division (Japan) 9th Division (Japan) 5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet Japanese Second Fleet Asama Azuma Iwate Izumo Tokiwa Yakumo Asahi Fuji Kasuga Mikasa Nisshin Shikishima
1st Manchurian Army 2nd Manchurian Army 3rd Manchurian Army Manchurian Army 1st Army Corps (Russian Empire) 1st Siberian Army Corps 2nd Siberian Army Corps 3rd Siberian Army Corps 4th Siberian Army Corps 5th Siberian Army Corps Russian Naval Infantry Port Arthur garrison 4th East Siberian Rifle Division 7th East Siberian Rifle Division Imperial Russian Navy Baltic Fleet Pacific Fleet (Russia) Second Pacific Squadron Borodino Imperator Aleksandr III Knyaz Suvorov Oryol First Pacific Squadron Peresvet Petropavlovsk Pobeda Poltava Retvizan Sevastopol Tsesarevich Third Pacific Squadron Admiral Seniavin Admiral Ushakov General-Admiral Apraksin Imperator Nikolai I Vladivostok Cruiser Squadron Gromoboi Rossia Rurik Amur Flotilla

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Before and after

Followed from
First Sino-Japanese War July 25, 1894 – April 17, 1895
Ended by
Treaty of Portsmouth September 5, 1905
Led to
Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 November 17, 1905

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