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Both Russia & Japan had expansion interests in Manchuria/Korea. Japan started the war with a Torpedo Boat Destroyer attack on the Russian Battleships at anchor in Port Arthur, in February 1904.

It wasn't an earth shaking victory, but it did start the war.

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