On July 25, 1895, the Japanese fleet sank an English steamer with two battalions of Chinese infantry and 14 guns near about. Phundo. On August 1, 1894, the Japanese government officially declared war on China... This war became a milestone in the history of the Far East: it was after it that Japan declared its ambitions for dominance first in the Far East, and then throughout Asia and the Pacific; it was after it that the entire Far Eastern policy of European countries was radically revised. But, despite the fact that Japan won the war, the price was excessive: five wars in fifty years, atomic bombing, defeat in the world war. And this path to Calvary began for Japan in July 1894, in Seoul...