Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: MAP SHOWING “THE REGIONS WHERE THE INTERESTS OF THE TWO POWERS MEET” ] THE RUSSO-JAPANESE CONFLICT ITS CAUSES AND ISSUES BY K. ASAKAWA, PH. D. _Lecturer on the Civilization and History of East Asia at Dartmouth College; author of the “Early Institutional Life of Japan,” etc._ WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FREDERICK WELLS WILLIAMS _Assistant Professor of Modern Oriental History in Yale University_ _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration: The Riverside Press] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1904 COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published November, 1904_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION The issues of the conflict that forms the topic of this little volume are bound inevitably to influence the future of the civilized world for many years. Dr. Asakawa presents them with a logical thoroughness that reminds us of the military operations of his countrymen now in evidence elsewhere, and recalls very pleasantly to my own mind the sane and accurate character of his scholastic work while a student at Yale. It is the sort of presentation which a great subject needs. It is content with a simple statement of fact and inference. It is convincing because of its brevity and restraint.