Episode 19 - Japan Rising in the East

Meiji Japan learns from the West and builds its economy, its army and the Japanese Imperial Navy. Japan begins its own gunboat diplomacy and takes control of the Ryukyu Islands. It defeats China in the Sino-Japanese War and gains Penghu and Taiwan, as well as control over Korea. Russian and Japanese tensions build. Great Britain allies with Japan and the Japanese Imperial Navy launches a sneak attack on Port Arthur (Dalian). Japan destroys two Russian fleets and Teddy Roosevelt negotiates the peace treaty. Asian and Chinese nationalists take heart in the Asian victory over a European power.Image: "Depiction of the Sino-Japanese War" by Rijksmuseum is marked with CC0 1.0 . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.