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Anglo-Japanese Alliance

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Anglo-Japanese Alliance

(1902–23) Alliance between Britain and Japan to protect their respective interests in China and Korea. Directed against Russian expansionism, the alliance helped Japan in the Russo-Japanese War by discouraging France from entering the war on the Russian side. The alliance later prompted Japan to enter World War I on the side of the Allies. Britain allowed the alliance to lapse after the war, when it no longer feared Russian encroachment in China.



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The British tried confrontation with Germany (symbolized by the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale and an Anglo-German naval arms race) and appeasement with Japan (the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance and considerable aid for the Imperial Japanese Navy until the late 1920s).
In the chapter on the lead-up to the Russo-Japanese War, we are given only two pages on the pivotal Anglo-Japanese Alliance, then provided with little evidence for the assertion that Japan wanted genuinely to avoid war with Russia.
 
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