Tsar Nicholas The II Argumentative Analysis

In 1894, a new treaty called the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation was signed which paved the way for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902. Unlike the previous two treaties between Britain and Japan, the 1894 treaty was a breakthrough agreement because it heralded the end of the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan. British citizens living in Japan were now

But on the other hand, Japan was clearly not completely convinced that they would be able to achieve a peaceful arrangement with the U.S. because they continued with preparing for war. Perhaps Japanese officials decided that it was worth trying for peace regardless.

Clausewitz’s thoughts on war termination effectively summarize the situation for the Japanese and Russian Empires preceding peace negotiations, “Inability to carry on the struggle can, in practice, be

“The reading of Japan’s diplomatic traffic by the United States... indicated that retention of the emperor was not the only impediment to peace. (The messages) indicated that the Japanese were attempting to deal with the Soviet

Later in the 1800s, the United States attempted several times to secure diplomatic relations with Japan. All attempts miserably failed. President Milton Fillmore determined that Matthew C. Perry, a skilled was a Naval officer that could get it done. He presented Perry with instructions to take charge of the East India Squadron with aim to treat peacefully with Japan.

There are critics and historians who say that Japan was already beat and that the war could have ended by negotiations. In their opinions because Germany had surrendered, the Imperial Navy was driven from the sea by the Pacific Fleet, Okinawa and Iwo Jima were in our hands and because Japan was cut off from resources from the Indies, they believe Japan was already defeated. Japan’s defeat however was not the issue. It

on the Japan, like expected, they were not able to gain to much power in the Pacific.

Russo-Japanese War. To understand why, this paper considers the elements of the Fabian strategy and compares how those elements were satisfied, or not, by General Washington and the Russian

Redefine unconditional surrender to guarantee the Imperial institution; 4. Pursue Japan’s “peace feelers”; or 5. Rely upon conventional warfare for a longer period (Bernstein 1975, 50). First, the administration knew that Stalin and his Soviet troops were going to invade Japan to declare war if they did not surrender (Bernstein 1975, 48). This raised a lot of questions with people as to, as to why not wait and let them enter and take care of the Japanese?

“When the Japanese Kwantung Army (also known as the Guandong Army) contrived to invade Manchuria on 18 September 1931, it unleashed military and political forces which led ultimately to the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941”(BBC). It can be concluded that Japan’s invasion of Manchuria, and even their attack on Pearl Harbor, were a result of extreme nationalism and militarism. Therefore, in conclusion, Japanese expansion was an integral part of WWII, and thus must be considered when evaluating the effect of the Treaty of Versailles on WWII.

By the beginning of September 1944, Japan was almost completely defeated through a practically complete sea and air blockade. The Japanese military was still not willing to surrender. “If the decision could have been made by Japan's civilian leaders or even the Japanese people, the war probably would have come quickly to an end, but unfortunately the decision was not theirs. It lay in the hands of the military, and particularly in the hands of army leaders. “By this time the Japanese Navy had virtually ceased to exist, almost all its ships having become either unserviceable or having been sunk. Leaders of the Japanese army and the Emperor had decided to fight on, whatever the cost, and

Japan was losing land they gained during World War 2 to the US and The Soviet Union begun to invade Manchuria. No matter what Japan did not have very many options to keep fighting now that the Soviet Union became involved and wanted to take away land from Japan as well. Most of the Invasion from the US also weakened Japan’s military. Due to the invasions from the US and the Soviet Union Japan were ready to surrender because they could not afford to continue even if they would not surrender the US had other options to make Japan surrender.

Likewise, emperor Hirohito met with several officials to discuss the war’s progress and its outcome. Everyone agreed except for Minister Konoe to continue the war. Although they new Japan had no chance of winning this war victorious emperor Hirohito still hoped at the end of this he day Japan will come out as champions which will improve bargaining positions. As you can see emperor Hirohito showed leadership skills and hope he set a meeting even though he knew that the chances for Japan was zero. However, he still did not give up on his people for him to have hope was something that not many leaders have

However, similar to the British in the Opium War against China, the Americans used the “Gun-boat diplomacy” to divulge the potential military demolition prowess in the eyes of the Japanese. With past historical events like the Opium War, the writer specifically acknowledge that the western power like the Americans were purely attempting to threaten the Japanese to discard its closed-door policy and open up to western nations and ideas. This could also demonstrate that the Japanese were powerless and were caught unprepared militarily during that period and the decision to let in the Americans were made final by “prince” Toda Izu, a Shogun official, and not the emperor. Moreover, the attempt to gather feedback and advice from the Emperor was regarded as only the “last resort” as it would reflect negatively that the Shogun was incapable and incompetent to make important decision. On the other hand, it might be that the decision made together with the emperor would mean better management to keep American officials at bay from not creating such unequal treaties.

This system was really just a money grabbing situation and China did not like having their money flow bothered by the Japanese. Japan gave a display that they were now a true power in East Asia however due to treaties and agreements with several European powers, it was agreed that Japan had to relinquish the ports in China and that they could not attack without permission. To me this shows that Europe was afraid of their revenues coming from Asia would be threatened. Since they couldn’t expanded “without permission”, it also put Russia on notice that Imperial Japan was now the superpower of East Asia. An issue Japan seems to have taken is that the Russian Empire gained/”leased” Port Arthur due to their influence and power. After the Boxer Rebellion in Manchuria, Russia fully took over and occupied Manchuria with no intention of leaving soon. Tsar Nicholas said that it was temporary and yet all plans of withdrawing ended up getting cancelled. The Japanese even made offers like giving Russia full rights to Manchuria in exchange for Japan having full rights to the Korean Peninsula, but they were all rejected. I don’t think it would have been accepted anyway because that would have ended all chances of Russia getting Korea to itself. The tensions escalated at the