Teddy Roosevelt won it in his second term for helping end the Russo-Japanese War.
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China believes the islands were annexed by Japan as spoils of the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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Britain played a sometimes confusing game here, going back to the earlier Japanese war with the Russian czar.
The Japanese victory in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 made them the new sole oppressors, only to be checked themselves the following year by the Russians.
Through the First Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese war, and WWI Japan fulfilled its ambition of becoming a major power, only to over-reach and descend into ruin on 8.15.
Historians say hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers were murdered and raped following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing during the second Sino-Japanese war.
And after the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Roosevelt changed America's diplomatic posture from competitor with the other imperialist powers in dominating the world to mediator in their growing conflicts.
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.
In 1904, the Russian Fleet took heavy losses when the Japanese fleet blocked them as they were trying to escape from Port Arthur in the battle of the Yellow Sea, part of the Russian-Japanese War.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
Then during the Second World War, he survived more than three years in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
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The Americans had supplied arms to Vietminh guerrillas who fought against the Japanese during the war.
In 1943, American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
The tracks were prime targets of saboteurs fighting the Japanese in World War II, and, afterwards, the French who built the line.
In 1944, after three weeks of fighting, U.S. forces finally overran Pati Point and recaptured Guam from the Japanese in World War II.
Why, when millions can remember the atrocities committed by Germans, Russians and Japanese during World War II, are those nations more popular than America?
The British Government has refused to reopen negotiations with the Japanese Government over compensation for Britons taken prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.
Yoji Yamada, who wrote and directed all 48 of the Tora-san films the most loved and successful series in the post-war Japanese cinema produced all his screenplays while secluded in the Wakana.
Just as usefully, if not more so, the two parts illuminate each other in intricate, specific ways, explaining why, for instance, a Japanese prisoner of war went berserk, or what happened to a GI after he was taken captive.
Martyn Day, solicitor for the Japanese Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees Association, said the PoWs felt the honour was "surprising" at a time when many veterans were awaiting the outcome of a long-running legal battle for compensation from the Japanese authorities.
South Korean women kept as sex slaves by the Japanese army during World War II have held their 1, 000th rally outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
But these double eyelids are not as pronounced as those given to Japanese women after the war.
In the late 1980s it fought a price war with Japanese enginemakers while investing heavily in new product.
Loyalty to Kim Il Sung had been forged by a guerrilla war against Japanese imperialists waged in Manchuria.
The men were the first Japanese casualties in the war in Iraq.
When in the second world war the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, they were happy to drink Heineken beer.
Most Japanese, devastated by war, were quite happy with this arrangement.
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