Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War was a war waged by the young Westernized Japan against Tsarist Russia. Japan won one-sided naval battles like the Battle of Tsushima against the Russians (the Russians lost almost their whole fleet while the Japanese lost a mere 3 torpedo boats). The war was fought with bayonet charges, artillery, machine-guns, trenches, almost a foreshadow of WW1, which happened just 10 years latter. Another foreshadow is Japan's quick rise to conquer several parts of Asia during WW2. The Russo Japanese War ended in Japanese victory with the Treaty of Portsmouth. Russia was forced to abandon its expansionist polices, but Japanese citizens were outraged by the Japanese government's willingness to negotiate with the West. This caused major riots in Japan. The defeat of an European by an Asian power was one to shock the Western World.