The Russo-Japanese War in global perspective: World War Zero

Abstract

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 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