The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 at the Portsmouth Naval Base, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by Sergius Witte[?] and Roman Rosen[?] (for Russia) and Komura Jutaro and Takahira Kogoro[?] (for Japan), ending the Russo-Japanese War.
The treaty acknowledged Japan as the dominant power in Korea and both sides agreed to evacuate Manchuria and return its sovereignty to China, but Japan was leased the Liaodong Peninsula[?] (containing Port Arthur and Talien) and the Russian rail system in southern Manchuria with access to strategic resources. Japan also received the Island of Sakhalin from Russia.
The negotiations for the treaty were taken under the mediation of Theodore Roosevelt (who won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for this), both sides were seeking a peace - the Russians had been repeatedly defeated, but the Japanese were in considerable financial difficulties. Negotiations lasted through August. Prior to the beginning of the negotiations, the Japanese had signed the Taft-Katsura agreement[?] with the US in July, 1905, agreeing to Japanese control in Korea in return for American dominance in the Philippines. Also the Japanese agreed with Britain to extend the Anglo-Japanese treaty[?] to cover all of Eastern Asia and in return for Britain also agreeing to Japan having Korea. The treaty confirmed Japan's emergence as the pre-eminent power in east Asia and forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policies, but it was not well received by the Japanese public.
See also: Imperialism in Asia
External Links
- The Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905, Russo-Japanese War (http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/portsmouth.html) - actual text
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At the Canaries they heard stories of lands the sixth of September they sailed from Gomera and on the eighth thirty-three days. Such was the length of the great voyage. All land perhaps, but which might show whether this great ocean were a dangerous one. According to the Admiral's reckoning--and in his own journal thousand and eighty-nine leagues. This was not far from right, hundred and forty nautical miles, or three thousand six hundred long voyage for small vessels now. In general the course was If they had sailed precisely west they would have struck the Augustine now is, about the northern line of Florida. [*] The computations from Santa Cruz, in the Canaries, to San Mozer, of the United States navy. Columbus supposed, this latitude of the Canary islands would have which was what Columbus was seeking. For nearly a generation region was what they had found. It was on Saturday, the eighth of September, that they lost sight of a ship afloat. On the fourteenth they saw a "tropic-bird," leagues from land; but it must be remembered, that, outside.