Nor is he comparable to the commanders of the JapaneseEmpire, whose doubts about our ability to persevere we chose to dissuade in a Tokyo we had reduced to rubble.
The first occasion demonstrated to the world that Japan had arrived as a legitimate military power with its stunning defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5.
Economically, India was a growing industrial power which by 1935 had a positive balance of trade with UK. Militarily, the British Empire depended badly upon the large and powerful Indian Army, particularly as Japanese advanced through Asia.
However, the most noticeable representation of the Russian theme during this fashion week was the show by a Japanese designer, Tadashi Shoji, and his collection of dresses inspired by the fall of the Russian Empire.