ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a global evaluation of the impact of the Russo-Japanese War with foci on the region where it took place, that is East Asia, the colonial world, that is India, on the European enemy party of Czarist Russia, the mediator's position of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt in particular. It also talks about the neutral observers in Berlin, who would be politically and militarily tremendously influenced by an event on the global periphery. It analyses the impact of the war on the Japanese society, on the "neutral" observer of the war, China, as well as on Korea as a victim of the events in 1904 and 1905. The book focuses on Akashi Motojiro's activities in Sweden to show the impact of the war on the Russian revolutionary movements.
