Theoretically, these japanese are nothing but upstarts. They go into this war with china and end up winning it while losing less usually the numbers you see are less than 15 hundred men killed in combat. That's astounding. The other great powers sat up and took notice. Japan has sort of had this coming out party. They're in the great powers now. And then all of a sudden, i love the way r taggart murphy describes it: He says it's the equivalent having three old lions come in and steal the first kill of a young leopard who's just learning how to hunt or something like that. No, no, no no. It