Russo-Japanese War

Target entity: Russo-Japanese War
Context triple: [Imperial Japanese Navy, conflict, Russo-Japanese War]

• A. First Sino-Japanese War
  The First Sino-Japanese War was an 1894–1895 conflict between Qing dynasty China and Meiji Japan that marked Japan’s emergence as a major regional power and led to Chinese territorial losses, including Taiwan.
• B. Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
  The Soviet–Japanese War of 1945 was the brief but decisive final campaign of World War II in Asia, in which the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and other territories, hastening Japan’s surrender.
• C. Crimean War
  The Crimean War was a mid-19th-century conflict in which Russia fought an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia, noted for its brutal conditions, military blunders, and the emergence of modern nursing and war reporting.
• D. Russian Civil War
  The Russian Civil War was a multi-sided conflict from 1917 to the early 1920s between the Bolshevik Red Army and various anti-Bolshevik and nationalist forces that determined the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power.
• E. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
  The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Russo-Japanese War
Target entity description: The Russo-Japanese War was a 1904–1905 conflict between the Russian Empire and Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea, notable as the first major victory of an Asian power over a European one in modern times.

• A. First Sino-Japanese War
  The First Sino-Japanese War was an 1894–1895 conflict between Qing dynasty China and Meiji Japan that marked Japan’s emergence as a major regional power and led to Chinese territorial losses, including Taiwan.
• B. Soviet–Japanese War (1945)
  The Soviet–Japanese War of 1945 was the brief but decisive final campaign of World War II in Asia, in which the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-held Manchuria and other territories, hastening Japan’s surrender.
• C. Crimean War
  The Crimean War was a mid-19th-century conflict in which Russia fought an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia, noted for its brutal conditions, military blunders, and the emergence of modern nursing and war reporting.
• D. Russian Civil War
  The Russian Civil War was a multi-sided conflict from 1917 to the early 1920s between the Bolshevik Red Army and various anti-Bolshevik and nationalist forces that determined the establishment and consolidation of Soviet power.
• E. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
  The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
• F. None of above. chosen