When Japan Defeated Russia
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After begrudgingly allowing American access to the region in 1854 under the threat of gunfire, the Japanese adopted a constitution and series of reforms aimed at modernizing their nation. This Meiji Restoration rapidly transformed Japan into an imperial power as mighty as those in the West. In 1904, years of tension fueled by mutual interest in controlling Manchuria and Korea exploded with a Japanese attack on the Russian Navy at Port Arthur and the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War. Overconfident and incompetent, the shocked Russians were humiliated by the Japanese in just over 18 months. Muslims in Asia were ecstatic. Some Muslims, particularly in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, found no greater pleasure than in watching the humbling of their detested Russian neighbors. But others saw an opportunity: in roughly four decades, the Japanese had bested a Western power that used to bully them. Perhaps peoples elsewhere could best other Western powers, too. The hopes that Muslims had harbor
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