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powerful influence in boosting national pride. For the first time a European country had allied
with an Asiatic power against a Western rival. In effect, the British sanctioned Japanese
aggression in Korea and strengthened the Japanese to challenge the Russians successfully
in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, which put Japan on course to dominate Manchuria.
The treaty was renewed in 1911 and the Japanese joined the Allied side in the First World
War, but the alliance with Britain lapsed in 1923.
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