The Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance, the first between a European country and an Asiatic power against a Western rival, was signed on 30 January 1902.
Oct. 26, 1909, a year before Korea was annexed by the Japanese Empire, is remembered by Koreans as a day when independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun (1879-1910) pulled the trigger on Ito Hirobumi, a four-time prime minister of Japan and the first resident-general of Korea, upon his arrival in China s Harbin.
NAKANO, Nagano Prefecture A stunning cache of historical documents from the files of the imperial Privy Council dating from the Meiji Era (1868-1912) turned up in the unlikeliest of places, a storage facility of a fruit farmer here.