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They needed a warm water port and thought it would be a "quick victory" to regain respect; however in the end Russia was defeated and very humiliated.
Russian expansion eastward and their accompanying need for an ice-free naval port. Japan didn't want the Russians so close, and contested their eastward expansion...with war.
The Russian navys need to have an ice-free port in the Pacific region. This expansion clashed with Japanese needs. So they fought a war over it.
The US and Soviets were allies. If we were attacked they would help us and vice versa.
The Russia-Japanese war was a one unlucky war. Japan were however saved through the intervention of the United States.
War between Russia & Japan in 1904.
Russia and Japan
Japan : The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) .
Japan defeated Russia in 1905 in the Russo-Japanese War.