Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against the behemoth Russia and its neutral fleet at Port Arthur, it marked the beg ...

Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against ...

A monument several meters tall stands beside the approach to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo where Japan’s war dead are honored.

In the wake of the Russian Empire’s humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), the Gangut-class was presented as the answer to many of Russia’s naval problems. In that war with the Empire ...