ABSTRACT
Korea is necessary to Japan ; it is essential to Russia; and the spirit of final accommodation is, humanly speaking, impossible between Japan and Russia. This is a full statement of the Russo-Japanese Question. It is upon this basis, through these symbols, that the Japanese Revolution meets or establishes relations with the Russian Tradition. The case is sometimes called the Manchurian Question ; Japan herself at this moment names it the Manchurian Question. Nevertheless he understands the intricacies of the whole fateful imbroglio who perceives that Korea is necessary to the Russian Tradition, and essential to the Japanese Revolution, and in addition knows that the mind of ultimate accommodation is, humanly speaking, impossible between the Tradition and the Revolution. The Tradition despises the Revolution ; the Revolution fears dishonour before the Tradition, and, with Korea, there you are : you have the Russo-Japanese Difficulty, for a Russian Korea is the dishonour of the Revolution, and a Japanese Korea is the death of the Tradition.
