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 For the moment what should be seized upon as the kernel of the imbroglio is that it is necessary to hark back to 1895 and the Korean war, and deal with the four big questions of leased territories and spheres of influence; railways; tariff reform; and judicial reform, from the point of view that Russian imperialism having been perpetually eliminated from Eastern Asia, the maritime nations can push off from the land and settle the issue on the basis of sea-power; since it has been Russian action—and not German, as in Europe—which has been the terror and the threat, and to which must be primarily traced present Japanese continentalism.