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Port Arthur, 20,000-25,000 men were sent home from the 80,000 man ird
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Army. By then Japan had then established its rst version of Epidemic
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Prevention Laborator y.
By the end of the war, Roosevelt was thrilled to negotiate the Treaty of

Portsmouth, which handed Korea to Japan. Russia also ceded its interest in

Southern Manchuria to Japan as well as the Island of Sakhalin. Roosevelt

deeply believed that Japan should be the one upholding the Japanes e
Monroe Doctrine in Asia.

“Japan is the only nation in Asia that understands the

principles and methods of Wester n civilization. She has proved

that she can assimilate Wester n civilization, yet not break up
her own her itage. All the Asiatic nations are now faced with

the urgent necessity of adjusting themselves to the present age.

Japan should be their natural leader in that process, and their

protector during the transition stage, much as the United States

assumed the leadership of the Amer ican continent many years
ago, and by means of the Monroe Doctrine, preser ved the Latin

Amer ican nations from European inter ference, while they were

maturing their independence.”

—P T R

  K K,

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J , .

Manchuria had been special to the rulers of the Qing dynasty who were

descendants from that region. In 1905, aer the Portsmouth Treaty, the

Japanese replaced Russians as leaseholders in the region with the Kwantung
Garrison and labeled it as Kwantung Leasehold Ter ritor y. roughout the