Bezobrazov, AK (English spelling)

...It was only after the Sino-Japanese War and the subsequent Triple Intervention that the government's top brass began to pay attention to Japan, and many of the people only became aware of the name Japan after the war began. The conflict between the Japanese and Russian imperialists in the Far East led to the war, but within Russia, there was a conflict between hardliners such as Aleksandr Mikhailovich Bezobrazov (1855-?) and moderates such as Witte, but they shared the view that they looked down on Japan. The war began on February 8, 1904, with a surprise attack by the Japanese army at Incheon and Port Arthur. In his imperial decree declaring war, the Tsar emphasized the treachery of the Japanese army's attack without a declaration of war and appealed for the people's cooperation in the war, but the people found the legitimacy of this to be unconvincing, as it was a war against an unknown country in the distant Far East. ...

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…政府上層部が日本に着目するようになるのは，日清戦争とそれにつづく，いわゆる三国干渉以降のことであり，民衆の多くは戦争が始まってようやく日本という名を知るにいたった。日本･ロシア両帝国主義の極東での対立が戦争となるが，ロシア内部にはベゾブラーゾフAleksandr Mikhailovich Bezobrazov(1855‐？)らの強硬派とウィッテらの穏健派の対立を含みながら，日本軽視という点では共通していた。1904年2月8日，仁川，旅順での日本軍の奇襲攻撃で戦争が始まり，ツァーリは開戦の詔勅で，宣戦布告なしの日本軍の攻撃の背信性を強調し，民衆の戦争協力を訴えたが，民衆には遠い極東の国外における知らない国との戦いであり，その正当性には説得力が乏しかった。…

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