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The article is written in truly bad English, and is clearly Japanese nationalist in tone. It's author apparently believes that traditional Japanes attacks on foreign shipping can be justified.

It should be noted that this battle was entirely initiated by the Japanese warlord and the foreign powers took no serious advantage of their victory, but during this period, Japanese were conquering Hokkaido and wiping out the native Ainu. And within thirty years of this minor battle, the Japanese were on a rampage in China and in another decade had defeated Russia and annexed vast foreign territories.

Japanese feelings of victimisation are quite precious. The article should be eliminated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{1}}}|contribs]])

What the Japanese did in Hokkaido and China later has absolutely zero bearing on the events at Shimonoseki. Historical events must be taken in their context, and not within some racist anti-Japanese schema. As for eliminating the article entirely, I hope you're kidding. To erase knowledge of an event from history, just because some people don't like the way it happened? That's not how free and open societies deal with things. I am going to go look at the article now, see what I can fix and change. LordAmeth 10:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC) reply