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In This Issue

Japans War Against Russia pg 1-2

Russo-Japanese Map pg 2

Sino-Japanese War pg 3

Interview-The Triple Intervetion pg 4

Life Style pg 4-5

Editorial-Women’s Inequality pg 6

Japan-TimeJapans War Against RussiaBy-Benjamin Lin

On September 5th 1905, Theodore Roosevelt brought both Japan and Russia to America at New Hampshire to sign the Treaty of Portsmouth. The Treaty ended the dissension between Japan and Russia. The Treaty of Portsmouth is about:-Russia will recognize Japan’s interest in Korea-The lease of the Liaotung Peninsula was given to Japan’s hands-Russia gave Japan the Manchurian Railway to the Japanese-Japan acquired the southern half of the Sakhalin -Both nations agree not to disrupt with the decisions of China on what they’ll make with Manchuria.

The reason that the Treaty of Portsmouth benefited Japan was that

Japan won the war against Russia. In addition, they were the ones who started this chaos. This war began to form a few moths ago, when Japan and Great Britain became alliance. Having Great Britain on their side, Japan had a second thinking and ending up with a different plot. The Meiji leaders gave Russia an ultimatum. The negotiated happened at an Imperial Conference, August 12th, 1903. The Japanese statesman, Ito Hirobumi, offered them that they would recognize Russian rights in Manchuria if Russia would recognize their interest in Korea. Although this negotiation took quite an amount of time, Russia only agreed to a small portion of Japan’s proposition.

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The reason for not agreeing to Japan’s proposal about having their interest in Korea much was that it has Russia’s exclusive line of communication, the South Manchurian Railway. So on February 8th, in Port Arthur, in the attempt of having some power of Korea, they declared a war. Japanese warships gave the Russians a surprise attack, by torpedoing their boats. The surprise attack created severe damages to their ships. Their second attempt had failed, but they had troops of armies in Korea, The Imperial Japanese Army. They then crossed the Yalu River and then into the Russian-occupied Manchuria. United States took actions, creating the Treaty of Portsmouth, to end the chaos between Russia and Japan.

This is a map that shows Japan’s movements

during the Russian and Japan war.

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Sino-

Japanese WarBy-Yamatoa Shimoski

The Sino-Japanese war is a serious event in Japan’s history. It

started out for Japanese government’s need to detach Korea itself from China,

in order to have Korea within their grasp. It then leads to one of its reasons

to start the Sino-Japanese war. The Japanese military leader, Yamagato

Aritomo, had gave his sayings in, the prior to the war, “the high-handed

attitude of the Chinese toward Korea, which was antagonistic to the interests

of Japan…” and that indeed, gave hints and signs that a great chaos is going to

happen, sooner or later. Chinese had refused the

demands of the Japanese government for allowing Korea to become an

independent nation. On the seventh of that year, the Japanese soldiers charged

into Korea and to their King’s palace. They demanded him to declare Korea’s

independence from China. The King agreed and then signed an order to expel

the Chinese from Korea’s property. However, the end is not near yet, when

the Japanese army had sunk a Chinese boat anger was brought to the Chinese

troops, and it ended up causing a war.Chinese were devastated that

they were defeated against Japan, while the Japanese troops were cheering for

their exhilarating victory against China. The Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed

between the China and Japan, on the

forth month of the year of 1895, which ended their war. China has nothing to

gain, but Japan has to, since they’ve won the war against China. The Treaty

of Shimonoseki main features are:• China recognized Korea as an

independent state

• The Liaotung Peninsula, Formosa,

and the Pescadores Islands were to be transferred to Japan

• Four new Chinese ports were open to Japan, for trades

• Japan gained the “most-favored” nation rights on China

• China paid an indemnity of 200 million taels to Japan.

The victory was a gigantic step for them to expand. One of the victorious

Japanese soldiers had said, “I never thought the Chinese would be so weak

in organizing their troops!” Then, Japan’s reputation, with the outside

world, didn’t get their title as the victorious. The event that greatly

impacted their reputation was when the Japanese troops massacre of the Chinese

Port Arthur. It’s said that the attack on Port Arthur was bloody and killed

60,000 Chinese men and women were killed, leaving no one behind. A

Japanese recalled in his diary, saying, “…Anyone we saw in the town was

killed. The streets were filled with corpses, so many they blocked our way.

…Firing and slashing, it was unbounded joy.” This massacre in Port Arthur,

began to spread as a global issue, and it

then steadily published to other countries all over the world.

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During the last week, Russia enlisted diplomatic support of both France and Germany. There aim was to take control of Liaotung Peninsula from Japan. So today, April 23rd, Japan gave its possession of Liaotung Peninsula to the Europeans. All citizens are disappointed and sad that Japan had lost their control over the Liaotung Peninsula. Now, let’s hear what the citizens of Japan has to say anything about this crisis. 

What’s your expression about this crisis?

Kawaii Tamako: My expression about this is disappointment and the agony of defeat. I mean, what Japan had done with the Liaotung Peninsula was terrible. We should have a Oight, since we beat China. In addition, it’s unfair that the three world bullies are taking the advantages and as well as everything from us. This situation will deOiantly be something that many people would look back at Japan’s history. 

Journalist: What do you think that caused Japan’s problem? 

Kawaii Tamako: In my opinion, I think we didn’t think much about what and how powerful the other countries that’s besides Asia. Everyone had to bear in mind about what the European forces had done, but we didn’t. It then ended up with the path, for Japan, to such crisis to occur.

Journalist:  What can we learn from this situation?

Kawaii Tamako: I think there are many things we can learn from what this crisis had done to us. We uncovered the fact that we’re not strong enough to duel and beat the three European forces. Within this analysis of this disaster, we can Oind what the weaknesses were and improve the weaknesses so that Japan would not be defeated again. But however, for the “exchange of the Liaotung Peninsula, we received an amount of thirty million taels”. We discovered that having too much conOidence is a bad thing. Having the situation of defeating China, led their thinking into an easy win. Now, we need to learn to be more modest and well prepared. I believe that we’ll, in the future, have the Liaotung Peninsula within our grasp. 

Journalist: In my opinion, I have to agree with what Kawaii Tamako had said. I also believe that we’ll get the Liaotung Peninsula back. In addition, Japan, as a whole, will become the strongest nation in this world.  

This map shows the LiaotungPeninsula. 

INTERVIEW-THE TRIPLE INTERVENTIONBy-Hanomota Kiashoka

Lifestyle-Fashion, Food, and Other ProductsBy-Jamamamli KomaA new year means a new start of a beginning, and as well as a new year of knowledge. When the emperor

takes in all the Western fashion, culture, and their lifestyle, the emperor cuts off his topknot. The West struck Japan with new trends of fashion styles for both women and men. Speaking of fashion, today’s fashion has been newly revealed low-buttoned dresses Secret Saturdays. Another popular to today is our latest cotton sweater. It has a pocket that can carrying little objects around and keeps the hands warm. There’s a hat attached on the back of the sweater, so don’t really have to bring a hat. Although the Western clothing is impacting Japan a whole a lot, they’re not really suitable for our environment. But it then became really popular for young kids to wear sweaters with bright colors, while the ladies wear the low-buttoned dresses with dark colors. It can be seen all over the streets, kids dancing while wearing the sweater and ladies walking within their dresses.

Weather won’t always be a friend, and raining days can spoil that new fancy fashion bought clothes for the entire day. Don’t worry about a thing, we’ve found a solution for this drastic measure. The United States is bringing in some thing called umbrellas. It says that it’ll prevent the person from getting wet. All you have to do to unfold the umbrella is to push the small button and it’ll extend its wings like a bird starts flying. Umbrella is not just convenient and helpful, but also it’s really cheap and a good household object for the

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house. Next month, there’ll be a new arrival of food

and tools that can survive the entire winter. Although the can looks small and looks like it has nothing, but it contains some really good, creamy, and tasty soup. To make it nice and warm for our body to feel and our taste buds to interpret the taste, you need a pan. You pour it into the pan and let the fire warm up the pan to cook the soup. They also shipped in some sugar tasty candy bar called chocolate. It came in several forms: circular, rectangular, and as well as the form of a three dimensional triangle.

People have been through many long journeys that can often think of small snacks, which we have been provided small biscuits. The purpose to bring this small snack was to fill up the person’s stomach instead of being hungered for food. The West has brought Japan many goods that can benefit our lives and makes it easier to live. The use of umbrella to prevent rain to ruin the day, chocolate’s taste to cheer our day, soup makes the person feels really good, and fashions that

not only looks good but also can keep the people warm.

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Editorial- Women’s Inequality By-Gamastu Laoeto Women have been treated disparate against men and have been inferior to men for hundreds of years. Women can accomplish and do what men can do, but being less appreciated within the society. Women have played an important role for Japan and meeting what the West have, even though they’ve been sold and traded as a prostitute and little amount of political rights in Japan. The Meiji period started because of the economic growth and modernization in Japan. Women have contributed to Japan’s rapid growth. They’ve populated 90% of Japan’s cotton industry, which is one of the most important industries in Japan. The women labor forced and demanded poor farmer girls to work in factories. Although their contribution to Japan has greatly impacted to Japan’s economy, they had no political rights in Japan. It then led to a hope of having women to have political rights from the new constitution, but it didn’t really happen. 1882, women weren’t allowed to make political speeches. In 1889, women were banned from any political activities and as well as

listening to political speeches. By 1898, women couldn’t take legal action and ending up with the same rights as disabled person and cripples. Later on, brothels were created and forced poor peasants to sell their daughters as prostitutes in Japan or overseas. They, Japanese prostitutes were mainly sent to Singapore to their sexual economy. Ashamed and the agony prevented them from returning home. The prostitutes were basically trapped like a hunt where a deer gets surrounded by three vicious tiger. They were forced into working in foreign brothels and the debts. The Meiji Restoration aimed to modernize and succeeded its ambitious goal, but failed to increase women’s status. Women have helped Japan to succeed to their modernization, but still don’t have the political rights, but instead, they used women as prostitutes. Both women and men have the same education. They’ve served men for an amount of time and equality is break free.

The cartoon shows the inequality that goes on in his head.

In the past, women couldn’t have anything to do with political speeches and their rights are being decreased.