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Historical Village of Hokkaido

Photo taken on Dec. 10, 2022, shows a booth introducing the popular Japanese manga series "Golden Kamuy" at the Historical Village of Hokkaido, an open-air museum featuring relocated and restored buildings from 1868 to 1920, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in northern Japan. Many of the buildings at the museum are featured in the manga written and illustrated by Satoru Noda as the story is set in Hokkaido in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).

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New Hampshire to commemorate Portsmouth Peace Treaty

CONCORD, United States - New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (front) signs a bill on Aug. 17, 2010, at Concord, New Hampshire, to designate Sept. 5 as Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day, commemorating the treaty which ended the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The memorial day was designated 105 years after Portsmouth, a city in the state, hosted representatives from Japan and Russia to conclude the treaty mediated by then U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Akie Abe

TOKYO, Japan, April 17 Kyodo - Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in this photo taken Dec. 15, 2016, lays flowers at a gravestone in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, for Russian soldiers who died in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war.

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Costume play lovers listen to guide at old residence

AOMORI, Japan - Young women listen to a guide in front of an old residence, reportedly built during the Edo period (1603-1867), in Sai village, Aomori Prefecture, on the northern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu on Aug. 15, 2014, during a village-wide event to welcome costume play lovers. The residence is the birthplace of Gotaro Mikami, a medical doctor who saved both Japanese and Russian soldiers during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war.

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Tsushima wants Putin's visit

TSUSHIMA, Japan - Daichi Komiya (R), head of the Nishidomari district in Tsushima, hands Oleg Ryabov, consul-general of the Russian Embassy in Japan, a letter in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, on May 27, 2014. The letter requests Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a memorial ceremony in Tsushima for soldiers who died during the Russo-Japanese War.

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Memorial service for Varyag crew

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A man related to the Russian Pacific Fleet speaks at a memorial service in Vladivostok, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014, for the crew of the Russian cruiser Varyag, which was sunk on Feb. 9, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese war.

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Memorial service for Varyag crew

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - A memorial service for the crew aboard the Russian cruiser Varyag, which was sunk on Feb. 9, 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war, is held in the Russian port city of Vladivostok on Feb. 9, 2014.

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107th anniversary of Portsmouth Treaty

PORTSMOUTH, United States - A sailor of the U.S. Navy salutes during a ceremony to mark the 107th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, on Sept. 5, 2012. The treaty ended the Russo-Japanese war that began in 1904.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The signatures of Japan's Jutaro Komura and Kogoro Takahira are seen in the photo.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Portsmouth Peace Treaty original text

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 6, 2011, at the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in Tokyo shows part of the original Portsmouth Peace Treaty text. The treaty was signed by the Japanese and Russian envoys at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the state of Maine, the United States, on Sept. 5, 1905, formally ending the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Gen. Nogi of Imperial Japanese Army

TOKYO, Japan - Undated photo shows Gen. Maresuke Nogi (1849-1912) of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army, a hero of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. A letter by him believed to have been written in August 1900 has been acquired by an antiquarian bookstore in Tokyo which plans to exhibit it at a Tokyo antique book fair to be held between Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, 2011.

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Gen. Nogi's letter discovered

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a letter handwritten by Gen. Maresuke Nogi (1849-1912) of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army, a hero of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, which an antiquarian bookstore in Tokyo has acquired and plans to exhibit at a Tokyo antique book fair to be held between Oct. 27 and Nov. 3, 2011. Nogi is believed to have written the letter in August 1900 to his younger brother, who apparently asked Nogi to find a job for one of their relatives, while Nogi was stationed in Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan.

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Portsmouth fetes 105th anniversary of end to Russo-Japanese War

PORTSMOUTH, United States - North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rings the bell on Sept. 5, 2010, in commemoration of the 105th anniversary of the signing of a peace treaty named after the city that formally ended the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War through the mediation of then U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Yasukuni Shrine returns monument to Korean people

TOKYO, Japan - The Bukgwandaecheopbi monument at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which was built in memory of Korean Admiral Li Sun Sin who fought against Japanese expeditions launched by warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) to conquer Korea in the late 1590s, was returned to South Korea on Oct. 12. The monument had been kept at the shrine after Japanese forces brought it to Japan during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Yasukuni Shrine returns monument to Korean people

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiaki Nambu (L), priest at Yasukuni Shrine, Chu Gyu HO (C), minister at the South Korean Embassy, and Keishiro Fukushima, parliamentary secretary at the Foreign Ministry, join hands at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 12 during a ceremony to return an 18th-century Korean stone monument to South Korea. The Bukgwandaecheopbi monument was built in memory of Korean Admiral Li Sun Sin who fought against Japanese expeditions launched by warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) to conquer Korea in the late 1590s, and had been kept at the shrine since Japanese forces brought it to Japan during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Lawmakers visit Meiji Shrine, to learn from Russo-Japanese war

TOKYO, Japan - About 40 lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) visit Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Feb. 10, the 100th anniversary of Japan's declaration of war against Russia that led to the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The lawmakers from the two parties launched a study group aimed at drawing lessons from the war.

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Taro Katsura

Born on Nov. 28, 1847 in Yamaguchi Prefecture and deceased on Oct. 10, 1913. Katsura served as prime minister three times -- between June 2, 1901 and Jan. 7, 1906; between July 14, 1908 and Aug. 30, 1911; and between Dec. 21, 1912 and Feb. 20, 1913. During his terms in office as prime minister, Japan signed the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, won the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War and annexed Korea, becoming a major imperialist power in East Asia.

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Russian cemetery given new grave markers

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A group working to preserve a Russian soldiers' cemetery in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, has set up new grave markers for the 98 men buried there. The soldiers were captured by Japan in the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War.

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Russian navy cadets inspect Mikasa

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Some 25 Russian navy cadets on Sept. 19 inspect the Mikasa, the Japanese warship that served as the flagship during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The Mikasa, used by Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Adm. Heihachiro Togo (1848-1934), is preserved at a park in Yokosuka, eastern Japan.

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The Dogger Bank Incident or Russian Outrage

The Dogger Bank Incident (or 'Russian Outrage') occured on the 22nd October 1904, when the Russian Fleet (sailing to reinforce the 1st Pacific Squadron stationed at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War) mistook 48 harmless British trawlers at Dogger Bank for an Imperial Japanese Navy force, leading to the loss of life of three British seamen, two by drowning and one from shock a year later. This card shows the damaged trawler 'Moulmein' and its crew, lucky to have returned to port alive. Date: 1904

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Memorial at Port Arthur, Manchuria, China

Port Arthur, Manchuria, China -- memorial of naval guns and mines from the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Date: circa 1908

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Patriotic Shrine - Paiyushan - Port Arthur

Patriotic Shrine - Paiyushan - Lushunkou (a district in the municipality of Dalian, Liaoning province, also called Lushun City or Lushun Port, formerly known as both Port Arthur and Ryojun). During the Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905), the Russians surrendered Port Arthur to the Japanese after nearly a year's siege: the Japanese expended 58,000 killed or wounded to obtain the town. This is a Japanese memorial to the victory. Date: circa 1910

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South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang, China

South Manchurian Railway Company Hospital - Shenyang (formerly Mukden), China. With the region under Japanese control following victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5), Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities. The South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu) - was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War, and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lushun Port (Port Arthur) at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway. Date: circa 1920s

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Major Richardson and his ambulance dogs

Major Edwin Hautenville Richardson, renowned dog trainer and founder of the British War Dog School during the First World War, pictured with two of the ambulance dogs he trained and supplied to the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1905

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Heart of Gold by Beatrice de Burgh and Lawrence Grant

Promotional postcard for Heart of Gold by Beatrice de Burgh and Lawrence Grant. First produced Coronet Theatre, 11th February 1905. The photo, showing Mrs Mouillot as O Hana San, clearly relates to the one-act Russo-Japanese romance, which took topical advantage of the war between Russia and Japan, but the reverse advertises Mr Grant and Mr Barringtons Company in Joseph Entangled by Henry Arthur Jones. Touring to the Theatre Royal, Bournemouth, 24th April 1905. Date: 1905

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Shinbashi triumphal arch, Tokyo, Japan

Shinbashi triumphal arch (Victory Gate), Tokyo, Japan, commemorating victory in the Russo-Japanese War. Date: circa 1905

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Battleship opening fire

The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - A Japanese Battleship opening fire. Date: circa 1905

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Red Cross in Japan, women's care for the wounded

The Red Cross in Japan: women's care for the wounded during the Russo-Japanese war. A working party of the Red Cross Society. Women of the aristocracy making lint and bandages at the house of Princess Komatsu. The Japanese Red Cross Society was under the direct patronage of the Empress, and included among its most active members the women of the foremost families in the Empire. Date: 1904

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The Russo-Japanese War - Interior scene

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - an unusual card (awaiting final translation!) depicting an interior scene. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Petropavlosk

Russo-Japanese War - Petropavlosk - Ship in harbour, smoke from one funnel. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Takasgo

Russo-Japanese War - Takasgo - Two masted, two funnels (white rings) ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Rossia - Russia

Russo-Japanese War - Rossia - Russia - Four-funnelled ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Red Cross in Japan, nurses for the front, 1904

The Red Cross in Japan: nurses for the front during the Russo-Japanese War. Trained nurses leaving Tokyo on their way to the front, marching to the railway station. Date: 1904

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Russo-Japanese War - Rurik Russia

Russo-Japanese War - Rurik Russia - Two masts, two white funnelled ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Fuji

Russo-Japanese War - Fuji - Two funnelled ship with flags. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Admirals

The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - Japanese Naval Admirals Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - HMS Flagship Centurion

Russo-Japanese War - HMS Flagship Centurion - Two-masted ship at sea. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Fort Arthur Basin

Russo-Japanese War - Fort Arthur Basin - Large ships in harbour. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Mandarin with child

Russo-Japanese War - Mandarin with child - Dignitary and young child with Sun. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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The Russo-Japanese War - Discussing Russian Surrender

The Russo-Japanese War of 1905-05 - Japanese and Russian commanders discuss the terms of the Russian Surrender. Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Takasgo

Russo-Japanese War - Takasgo - Two masted, two funnels (white rings) ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Fort Arthur Basin

Russo-Japanese War - Fort Arthur Basin - Large ships in harbour. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - (Chinese) Ministers of guard

Russo-Japanese War - (Chinese) Ministers of guard - Soldiers and horses in street. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Kralikri

Russo-Japanese War - Kralikri - Ships at sea. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Kasumi

Russo-Japanese War - Kasumi - Single-masted ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Sagamami

Russo-Japanese War - Sagamami - Long grey ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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The Russo-Japanese War - Victorious Cavalry return to Tokyo

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - Victorious Cavalry return to Tokyo Date: circa 1905

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Russo-Japanese War - Kobe send off

Russo-Japanese War - Kobe send off - Crowds waning. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

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The Russo-Japanese War - Japanese Naval Manoeuvers

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 - Japanese Naval Battle Manoeuvers Date: circa 1905