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The Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905) was a competition for control of Manchuria, Korea and ports in northern China. The Russians wanted a warmer Pacific port because theirs would freeze in the winter. The Japanese had learned the value of Imperialism from the Europeans, and were staking out Eastern Asia as their own sphere of influence. The war cost Russia most of their most powerful naval vessels, not to mention their international prestige, and it also weakened them militarily in Europe.

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