2007-12-27 07:24:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
If you don't like the question, don't answer it! A lot of people have a problem (your quote, not mine) with japan, you just aren't aware...
2007-12-27 07:32:00 · update #1
You are giving me only isolated battles, not wars. Whether or not Russia is a western country is questionable. It's in eastern Europe due north of asia.
2007-12-27 07:49:29 · update #2
Jeffrey S has the most accurate answer.
And to answer your question, Russia is considered a Western nation. The capital, Moscow is in Europe while just on two-thirds of Russia is in Asia.
2007-12-27 15:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by Walter B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, which included the crushing Japanese defeat of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. Considering that only fifty years before Japan had been essentially a medieval feudal society, their victory over Russia was particularly amazing.
If you're referring strictly to victories in battles, rather than entire wars, then the Japanese also inflicted a number of defeats on American, British, Dutch, and Australian forces in the early part of World War II, such as Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Singapore, and the Battle of the Java Sea, to name a few.
2007-12-27 15:38:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do you define as a "western power?" They clobbered Russia in 1906.
But, to follow on everyone else's answers: The beat the tar out of many Western Nations during their initial expansion in the Pacific around 1940 (particularly the British).
2007-12-27 15:35:02 · answer #3 · answered by wizbangs 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Japanese military forces won several battles surrendering only after atomic bombs were deployed on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Did they lose the war? My question is, "Is there any winner in war?"
ALL participants lose in a war.
2007-12-27 15:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They've won a lot of battles against the US. Maybe they could of done more on WWII if they had more gasoline and other resources.
2007-12-27 15:35:07 · answer #5 · answered by Crusader A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dude you're the only one who has a problem with Japan. Did you have some bad sushi?
Let it go man, there are so many other countries you could jump on the bandwagon with!
~V.
2007-12-27 15:27:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
they had some, but they were short lived.
2007-12-27 20:49:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
pearl harbor, midway,guadalcanal they won a boatload then lost a boatload
2007-12-27 15:32:38 · answer #8 · answered by uncle_buck71 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO!! thank god.
2007-12-27 15:26:21 · answer #9 · answered by dtx 50 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋