Dai Nippon TeikokuThis Six-Nation Alliance came together under the common cause of not only destroying the Boxer Rebellion, but maintaining peace and stability within China so that the years of progress made by us civilized nations of the world would not be undone. The Empire of Japan provided immense aid alongside the various members of this alliance, and while we were successful in this endeavor, the very nation who called upon us to form this Alliance has betrayed us all. While the Russian Empire did indeed lend assistance in crushing the Boxer Rebellion alongside the rest of this Alliance, it is apparent that they sought only to further their imperialist agenda in forcefully occupying Manchuria. A deplorable act which is only furthered by the barbarity in which the Russians acted against the local Chinese population, casting aside any sort of civility that they once claimed to have.
These brutal and imperialistic actions of the Russian Empire are not only an insult to the Six-Nation alliance, but to the entire civilized world. The Empire of Japan calls upon calls upon the various powers of Europe, as well as the United States to denounce the actions of the Russian Empire and demand their immediate withdrawal from Manchuria at once. Their presence in Manchuria, much like the Boxer Rebellion, is a threat to peace and stability in both China and the Far East.
~ His Imperial Majesty The Emperor of Japan, Meiji the Great