Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I: The Force of Personality -- 1. The Emperor Meiji and the Russo-Japanese War -- 2. Komura, the British Alliance and the Russo-Japanese War -- 3. Kato Takaaki and the Russo-Japanese War -- 4. Theodore Roosevelt and the Portsmouth PeaceConference: The Riddle and Ripple of His Forbearance -- Part II: Facets of Neutrality -- 5. American Capital and Japan's Victory in the Russo-Japanese War -- 6. Preparing for the Next War: French Diplomacy andthe Russo-Japanese War -- 7. German Policy and the Russo-Japanese War -- 8. Korea's Neutrality Policy and the Russo-Japanese War -- 9. Turning Japanese: British Observation of the Russo-Japanese War -- Part III: The Power of Intelligence -- 10. Issues of Strategic Intelligence: Anglo-German Relations and the Russo-Japanese War -- 11. Russia and Korea in 1904-1905: 'Chamberlain' A.I. Pavlovand his 'Shanghai Service' -- 12. The Japanese Consular System in China during the Russo-Japanese War -- Part IV: Interior Lines -- 13. Russian Views of the Far East in the Period of the Russo-Japanese War -- 14. The Role of the Home Front in the Russo-Japanese War -- 15. Japanese Deportees and Prisoners of War in Siberia, 1904-05 -- Part V: Gender and Race -- 16. Russo-Japanese War and Literary Expression: Voice, Gender and Colonialism -- 17. Japan Under Paternalism: The Changing Image ofJapan during the Russo-Japanese War -- 18. The Russo-Japanese War and the Emergence of theNotion of the 'Clash of Races' in Japanese Foreign Policy -- Part VI: Global Repercussions -- 19. The High Road to the First World War? Europe and the Outcomes of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-14 -- Bibliography -- Index.