¿What do you think about Russian-Japanese War 1904-1905? and Why?

Question

http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=gQY7QjYdFdM&feature=related

Answer 1

What I know about it is very little. The end result was Japan defeated a vastly larger country and showed how they could take such a technological leap when it embraced the industrial revolution. It was the beginning of Japanese expansionism in the Pacific.
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These victories, as time transpired, would dramatically transform the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a sober reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage. The embarrassing string of defeats increased dissatisfaction of the Russian populace with the inefficient and corrupt Tsarist government, and was a major cause of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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Answer 2

I think it showed the West not to underestimate "inferior peoples" and I think it first heralded the catch up of non Europeans to European technology.