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Port Arthur

— noun a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese

— noun (= Lushun) a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda

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Russia coveted Port Arthur, and the powers jointly brought pressure on Japan to withdraw from the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

With a diplomatic resolution ruled out, Japan launched a preemptive strike that annihilated the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur and Chemulpo, Korea.

The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa, Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.