Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective

David Wolff is Professor of Eurasian History at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.Steven G. Marks is Professor of History at Clemson University in South Carolina.Bruce W. Menning is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye is Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada.John W. Steinberg is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.Yokote Shinji is Professor of Russian History and Politics at Keio University.

• Preface, The Editors Introduction, Iriye Akira I.Military Visions and Revisions 1. Study Your Enemy: Russian Military and Naval Attaches in Japan - Wada Haruki 2. Miscalculating One's Enemies: Russian Intelligence Prepares for War - Bruce Menning 3. Differences Regarding Togo's Surprise Attack on Port Arthur - Aizawa Kiyoshi 4. Between Two Japano-Russian Wars: Strategic Learning Re-appraised - Yokote Shinji 5. Military Observers, Eurocentrism and World War Zero - David Jones 6. Approaching Total War: Ivan Bloch's Disturbing Vision - Tohmatsu Haruo II.The Home Front 7. Japan Justifies War by the "Open Door": 1903 as Turning Point - Kato Yoko 8. Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War - Steven Ericson 9. Japan's Monetary Mobilization for War - Ono Keishi 10. Patriotic Recession: Kyoto Responds to War - Takemoto Tomoyuki 11. Why Did Japan Fail to Become the "Britain" of East Asia? - Tadokoro Masayuki 12. Unsuccessful National Unity: The Russian Home Front in 1904 - Tsuchiya Yoshifuru III.The Cultural Prism 13. Shifting Contours of Memory and History, 1904-1980 - Chiba Isao 14. White Hope or Yellow Peril?: Bushido, Britain and the Raj - Hashimoto Yorimitsu 15. Natsume Soseki's Nuanced Views of the Conflict - Tsukamoto Toshiaki 16. Serial War: Egawa Tatsuya's Tale of the Russo-Japanese War - Kitamura Yukiko IV. Regional Relations during and after the War 17. A Damocles Sword?: Korea's Hopes Betrayed - Ku Daeyeol 18. The War and US-Korean Relations - Kim Ki-jung 19. The "Eastern Miscellany" Informs the Chinese Public - Li Anshan 20. Qing China's Northeast Crescent: The Great Game Revisited - Nakami Tatsuo 21. Portsmouth Denied: The Chinese Attempt to Attend - Hirakawa Sachiko 22. The "Rat Minister": Komura Jutaro and US-Japan Relations - Tosh Minohara