In truth, just plain bad luck. However, if the Russians would've stuck to it (and Japan knew this by the way, that's why they had Teddy Roosevelt broker a settlement quickly) they would've won the war...because the Trans-Siberian Railroad was working up to full throttle bringing in fresh infantrymen. Japan was running out of both money & men; although the Russians had lost TWO out of their 3 battleship fleets (the Black Sea Battleship Fleet was the only Survivor) they were stronger on land than they were at sea...and Russia had plenty of manpower to fill their army; Japan didn't.
Three reasons, basically: hubris, incompetence and supply lines.
Tsar Nicholas II, a weak leader at the best of times, was persuaded by bureaucrats that "a short victorious war" would "stem the tide of revolution" which, in 1905, was even then endangering his rule. So he supported squatters' rights of Russian claimants to much of the Korean peninsula, which Japan believed was its property. Japan began the war, which descended into what a British observer described as "a primeval scrimmage." Russia sent a fleet of ships around the world to defeat the Japanese fleet.
The war was lost on land and sea because, first, the Japanese generals were better than the Russian ones and, second, because Russia had a 5,000-mile supply line to the front, across Siberia, through which the railway was not yet complete. The Russian fleet was soundly defeated at the Battle of Tsushima. The Russian defeat hastened and perhaps ensured the eventual fall of the Tsar; in Japan, a tradition of military hegemony was born which, 30 years later, would have profound consequences.
Russo-Japanese War happened in 1905.
The Japanese beated The Russo(The Japanese won the war)
Russia lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-1905.
Well, the most people thought of Russians as big mean brutes, kinda like barbarians. And most people thought of the Japanese to be small people who couldn't do anything. but the Japanese defeat the Russians through small naval fights and the Russians lost all of them, so if you don't win any of the naval battles, it will be embarrassing as in this case to the Russians
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Russians officially didn't lose the Russo-Japanese War, I believe it ended with a truce, but they lost key battles in both the sea and land. Their Baltic Fleet which was touted as the strongest in the world was decimated by the newly formed Imperial Japanese Fleet and their cavalry was defeated by Japan's in a decisive battle.
As a nation that favored the Russians.
The launching of HMS Dreadnought which led to WWI.
Russo-Japanese War happened in 1905.
The Japanese beated The Russo(The Japanese won the war)
the russo-japanese war
Tsarist Russia's refusal to withdraw it's military forces from the Port Arthur/surrounding areas. Both the Japanese & the Russians had designs in that region.
There was never a "take over." Russia was at war with Japan in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War (in which Japan consistently defeated Russia).
Russia lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-1905.
Russians used tri-pod mounted machineguns (quite successfully) against the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905.
Yes and No. The Japanese acquired Korea as a result the Russo-Japanese War, so the Japanese definitely fired shots in the war against the Russians. However, the Japanese did not fight the Koreans to occupy the peninsula.
Russian troops were supposed to withdraw after the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 ended. Instead they reinforced the region. The Japanese protested this, as they too had designs in the area. Since the Russians ignored the protest, the Japanese attacked the Russians in Port Arthur in February 1904, starting the war.