Dan Snow

Probably it's when the future looked brightest.

You win the Russo-Japanese War.

You're allied to the British naval, the Japanese officers training of the Royal Navy in Dartmouth and all this kind of stuff.

Japan's on the winning side of the First World War.

It gets more concessions, does it, at the end of the First World War?

Sort of a few more bits of China?

Well, join us another time.

We'll be talking about that.

In fact, we have talked about that many times.

So thank you very much for coming on and taking us through how Japan rose to the unexpected story of Japan becoming a regional, even a world power.

Absolutely.

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