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The Anglo-Japanese Treaty was a treaty signed by Great Britain and Japan on January 30th 1902, by which the two powers agreed to safeguard their common interests in China and Korea. In the event of one of them being at war with a foreign power, the other would maintain a strict neutrality, but would assist her ally if a second foreign power joined the first. The treaty also stated that neither party would enter into agreements without the consent of the other and would confide fully in the other if common interests were endangered. The treaty was agreed for five years.
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Confucianism is an ancient Chinese doctrine. It takes its name from its supposed founder - Confucius, but predates him and Confucius never claimed to do more than preserve the virtues of the past. Confucianism inculcates no worship of a god, and is probably then an adaptation of Tao. It is widely practised in China and Korea.
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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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The Black Hairstreak (Strymonidia pruni) is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in the temperate zone of Europe and east through Asia to Korea in warm, shrubby localities overgrown with blackthorn and sometimes in plum orchards. The caterpillar feeds on blackthorn and plum.
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The Japanese Bobtail is a breed of domestic cat that has been known in Japan, Korea and China since at least 1000 AD. The breed is distinguished by a curious tail structure which gives the breed its name. This tail is about 5 cm long, and crooked, and is the result of a natural recessive gene, and only occurs when mating occurs between the breed. The first Japanese Bobtails arrived in the USA from Japan in 1968. An affectionate breed, they are renowned for greeting their owner with a wave of the paw. They enjoy swimming and the outdoors and the company of other cats of the same breed.
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Kalopanax is a genus of far-eastern deciduous, hairy or spiny trees native to China, Japan and Korea. The genus includes the Prickly Castor Oil Tree.
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The Large Chequered Skipper (Heteropterus morpheus) is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae found across Europe and Asia to Korea in various habitats. A single generation is produced in a year flying from May to early July.
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George Blake (born George Behar) was a Dutch-born British KGB spy. He was born in 1922 at Rotterdam. After serving with the Dutch resistance he joined the British Royal Navy and in 1944 joined the SIS. In 1949 he was posted to South Korea and upon the outbreak of the Korean War was interned by the invading North Korean forces. In 1951 he defected to the Russians, and volunteered to work as a Soviet Spy, being assigned the KGB codename Diomid. Information supplied by Blake to the Soviets enabled them to eliminate the entire Western intelligence force in East Germany between 1953 and 1955. Blake also informed the Russians about the American CIA intercept tunnel built from West to East Germany, and designed to intercept Soviet communications - a tunnel which the CIA believed to be a success until the truth was revealed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union some forty years later. Blake was identified following information provided by the Polish defector Michal Goleniewski in 1961. Sentenced to forty-two years in jail, Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving five years and travelled to East Berlin and from there to Moscow.
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George Nathaniel Curzon (Baron Cuzon of of Kedleston) was an English statesman. He was born in 1859 and died in 1925. The son of Baron Scarsdale, he was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He became assistant private secretary to the Marquis of Salisbury in 1885, from 1886 until 1898 he was MP for the Southport division of Lancashire; was under-secretary for India and for foreign affairs; and from 1898 to 1905 was viceroy of India, a post which he occupied with high distinction, and for which he was partly prepared through his extensive travels in Asia. On being appointed viceroy he was created a member of the Irish peerage, a rank which does not exclude the holder from the House of Commons. His resignation of the viceroyship was partly brought about by hia views conflicting with those of Lord Kitchener, the head of the Indian army. He was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports from 1904 to 1905, during his temporary absence from India. Later he was foreign secretary from 1919 until 1924. Hewrote Russia in Central Asia and the Anglo-Russian Question; Persia and the Persian Question; Problems of the Far East: Japan - Korea - China.
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Masakata Terauchi was a Japanese soldier and statesman. He was born in 1852 at Chosu and died in 1919. After joining the army he took part in the civil war of 1878. After leaving the army he went to France to study before returning to Japan and occupying staff posts. During the Chino-Japanese War he was charged with transport arrangements, and as minister of war was head of the department of supplies in the Russo-Japanese War. For his services as minister of war he was made a viscount and continued as minister of war until 1911 when he became governor-general of Korea and was promoted to a count. From 1916 until 1918 he was prime minister and a staunch supporter of the Allies during the Great War.
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