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Japan: Count Maresuke Nogi, general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1849-1912) Count Nogi Maresuke, GCB (乃木 a¸aaÖ¸), also known as Kiten, Count Nogi, (25 December 1849 13 September 1912) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from China, and the subsequent massacre of thousands of Chinese civilians. He was a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, as commander of the forces which captured Port Arthur from the Russians.<br ><br > He was a national hero in Imperial Japan as a model of feudal loyalty and self-sacrifice, ultimately to the point of suicide. In the Satsuma Rebellion, he lost a banner of the emperor in battle, for Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx

China: Fire at the Oil Depot in Port Arthur caused by Japanese Gunfire, 1905, (Russo-Japanese War, 8 February 1904 5 September 1905) The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 5 September 1905) was the first great war of the 20th century which grew out of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea.<br ><br > The major theatres of operations were Southern Manchuria, specifically the area around the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden, the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. The resulting campaigns, in which the Japanese military attained victory over the Russian forces arrayed against them, were unexpected by world observers. As time transpired, these victories would transform th Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx