The Geopolitical Landscape of Late 19th-Century Europe The final decade of the 19th century witnessed a dramatic realignment of European […]
A Ceremony in Vladivostok: The First Shovels of an Empire On May 30, 1891 (Old Style: May 18), Crown Prince […]
A Grand Tour with Geopolitical Undertones In the spring of 1891, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia—future Emperor Nicholas II—embarked on […]
A Tense Prelude to Imperial Diplomacy In late 19th-century East Asia, Russia and Japan stood at a crossroads of imperial […]
The Rise of Sergei Witte and Russia’s Far Eastern Ambitions In March 1889, Sergei Witte was appointed Director of Railway […]
The Asymmetrical Dawn of Cultural Exchange In the closing decades of the 19th century, Japan and Russia developed strikingly different […]
The Geopolitical Chessboard of 1880s East Asia In the closing decades of the 19th century, the Korean Peninsula became the […]
A Monarch Between Two Worlds Born in 1852—the same year as Japan’s Emperor Meiji—King Gojong of Korea’s Joseon Dynasty ascended […]
A Fateful Bombing in St. Petersburg On March 13, 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia met a violent end when […]
The Meiji Restoration and Japan’s Expansionist Ambitions The Meiji Restoration of 1868 marked Japan’s dramatic transformation from a feudal society […]
The Geopolitical Chessboard of Northeast Asia In the turbulent aftermath of the Meiji Restoration (1868), Japan faced numerous challenges in […]
The Pioneering Work That Shaped Historical Understanding The foundation for modern scholarship on Japan’s foreign policy from the Bakumatsu period […]
The Birth of Military Historiography After Conflict In the wake of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), both imperial powers embarked on […]
