The author desires to show the menace to the peace of the world in the rise of Japan as an Imperial Power and the trend of her policy. In this he is at his best, for he sketches clearly the steps by which in the course of comparatively a few years Japan has risen to the position of the dominant power in the Far East. The two wars of 1894 and 1904 gave her a
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