Outline of the Russo-Japanese War

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Russo-Japanese War
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Clockwise from top: Russian cruiser Pallada under fire at Port Arthur, Russian cavalry at Mukden, Russian cruiser Varyag and gunboat Korietz at Chemulpo Bay, Japanese dead at Port Arthur, Japanese infantry crossing the Yalu River
Date8 February 1904  – 5 September 1905 (1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks)
Location
Result Japanese victory
Territorial
changes
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength

1,365,000 (total) [1]

  • 900,000 (peak) [2]

1,200,000 (total) [1]

  • 650,000 (peak)
Casualties and losses

Total: 43,300–71,453 dead [3] [4]

  • 34,000–52,623 killed or died of wounds
  • 9,300–18,830 died of disease
  • 146,032 wounded
  • 74,369 captured

Material losses:

  • 8 battleships sunk
  • 2 battleships captured

Total: 80,378–99,000 dead [3] [4] [5]

  • 47,152–47,400 killed
  • 11,424–11,500 died of wounds
  • 21,802–27,200 died of disease
  • 153,673–173,400 wounded

Material losses:

  • 2 battleships sunk

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to English Wikipedia articles about the Russo-Japanese War. [6]

Contents

Overviews

The Russo-Japanese War [a] ; (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on the Liaodong Peninsula and near Mukden in Southern Manchuria, with naval battles taking place in the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.

Background

Aftermath and impact

Religious and ceremonial

Locations and geography

Lists

Cultural and media

Other topics

Historiography and memory

Events and battles

Land battles

Military assets

Russian military assets

Russian naval assets

  • Bayan-class cruiser (commissioned 1902) – Class of armored cruisers; saw action in major naval battles including the Battle of Tsushima.
Russian Battleships
Russian Cruisers
Other Russian naval assets

Japanese military assets

Japanese naval assets

  • Matsushima-class cruiser – Class of three armored cruisers including Matsushima, involved in naval engagements.
  • Izumo-class cruiser (commissioned 1900–1901) – Class of armored cruisers including Izumo and Iwate; heavily involved in fleet battles.
Japanese Battleships
  • Japanese battleship Asahi – A pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in 1900. It participated in various naval operations during the Russo-Japanese War.
  • Dingyuan-class ironclad – A class of ironclad warships built for the Imperial Chinese Navy, which were involved in the conflict.
  • Japanese battleship Fuji – A pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in 1901. It played a significant role in the Battle of Tsushima.
  • Japanese battleship Hatsuse – A pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in 1902. It was sunk during the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
  • Japanese battleship Mikasa – The flagship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War. It played a pivotal role in the Battle of Tsushima.
  • Japanese battleship Shikishima – A pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in 1901. It participated in several naval engagements during the war.
  • Japanese battleship Yashima – A pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, commissioned in 1904. It was involved in the Battle of Tsushima.
  • Chinese ironclad Zhenyuan – An ironclad warship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which was captured by Japan during the conflict and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as the IJN Zhenyuan.
Japanese Cruisers

Japanese destroyers

Other Japanese naval assets

Individuals

Japanese

Japanese political figures

Japanese military figures

Other Japanese figures

  • Eiji Shigeta (Japanese: 重田榮治) – Japanese war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War
  • Katai Tayama (田山 花袋) – Japanese writer who reported on the war.

Russian

Russian political figures

Russian military figures

Other Russian figures

Other

Military Observers and Attachés

Journalists and Writers

Medical

See also

References

Notes

  1. Russian: Русско-японская война, romanized: Russko-yaponskaya voyna; Japanese: 日露戦争, romanized: Nichi-ro sensō

Citations

  1. 1 2 Mitchell, T. J.; Smith, G. M. (1931). Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 6. OCLC   14739880.
  2. Reese, Roger R. (2019). The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. p. 197. ISBN   978-0-7006-2860-5.
  3. 1 2 Dumas, S.; Vedel-Petersen, K.O. (1923). Losses of Life Caused By War. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp.  57–59.
  4. 1 2 Matthew White. "Mid-Range Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century – Russo-Japanese War". Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  5. Uralanis, Boris (1960). Войны и народонаселение Европы: людские потери вооруженных сил Европейских стран в XVII-XX веках[Wars and the population of Europe: human losses of the armed forces of European countries in the XVII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Moscow: Социально-экономическая литература. p. 134.
  6. "Russo-Japanese War". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 June 2025.