The Changes Of American Policies Towards Japan Before And After The Russo-japanese War

In the late of19th and the early of20th century, the foreign policy of the United Statestransferred from the mainland expansion to the sea expansion, from the isolationism to theinternationalism. The United States started to accelerate overseas expansion, extensively gotinvolved in some international affairs. It began to treat the Far East as its goal of expansionand advocated "open door" policy at the same time. During this period, in order to obtainmarkets and raw materials, the competition of the Far East between European powers haveintensified. Russia got maximum benefits in the Far East, which has aroused strongresentment among the various powers, especially Japan. The contradictions between Russiaand Japan led to the Russo-Japanese War eventually. In the very early of the war, the UnitedStates supported to Japan in order to drown Russia out of the Far East. But the United Statesbegan to take balance policy in the Far East after Japan won the war. The President of U.S.Theodore Roosevelt mediated the Russo-Japan dispute. After the war, the United Statesstarted to penetrate to the Far East by capital. Japan allied with Russia and the Europeanpowers to keep vested interests and resist the United States. The contradictions between Japanand the U.S. began to be intensified. The era of the transition period is the beginning of thecompetition of the United States and Japan and it also foreshadowed the relations of these twocountries in the future.