During the Russo-Japanese War Battle of Liaoyang, Japanese troops searched and autopsied the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed on the battlefield near Liaoyang; on August 30 and 31, 1904, a renewed Japanese attack was repulsed by Russian forces, resulting in heavy losses.

During the Russo-Japanese War Battle of Liaoyang, Japanese troops searched and autopsied the bodies of Japanese soldiers killed on the battlefield near Liaoyang. From August 30, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were buried on the battlefield near Liaoyang.

　For the first time in the Russo-Japanese War, the battlefield of Liaoyang was the scene of a clash between two major armies, the Japanese with some 127,360 soldiers and the Russians with some 245,300 soldiers. The Battle of Liaoyang began with the Japanese invasion on August 26, 1904, and fighting broke out simultaneously on all fronts from August 30 in the city of Liaoyang. For about five days, the fierce offensive and defense were repeated. The Russian forces stationed in Liaoyang built a strong defensive position, and on August 28, the Shoushan Fort in front of Liaoyang became a disastrous battleground, with the main Russian forces defeating the Japanese forces. In the southern part of Liaoyang, the two armies engaged in a pitched battle, and the battlefield was extremely fierce. The Russian forces involved in the Battle of Liaoyang numbered approximately 224,600 with approximately 20,000 casualties, while the Japanese forces numbered 134,500 with approximately 23,533 casualties. Officially, the Japanese forces lost about 5,537 dead, the Russian forces lost about 3,611 dead, the Japanese forces suffered about 18,063 casualties, and the Russians suffered about 14,301 casualties. Later Soviet research put the total number of Japanese casualties at about 23,615, compared to Russian casualties of about 15,548.

　On August 31, Japanese troops crossed the Taizu River, which runs east to west just north of Liaoyang city, and the left flank of the Russian army was hit; on September 1, about half of the Japanese First Army crossed the Taizu River about 13 km east of the Russian front; on September 3, Kuropatkin, commander-in-chief of the Russian army, ordered his Russian troops to abandon Liaoyang and retreat to Mukden. Mukden. The Russians' defenses of Manchuria and their rebellion on the Liaoyang peninsula, with the exception of Fortress Arushun, were frustrated, and on September 4, the Japanese took control of the Liaoyang area. The Russian forces retreated to Mukden, and on September 8 the completion of the retreat of all troops was announced.

　The Russo-Japanese War attracted many foreign correspondents to the combat experience. From their safe positions, foreign correspondents were unable to witness the heroism, chivalry, devotion, sacrifice, patriotism, combat, and casualties of the Japanese soldiers. The Russo-Japanese War was thoroughly documented and reported as top news. General magazines such as Collier's and Harper's Weekly, as well as newspapers, relied heavily on visual information. In the process of visualizing and narrating the Russo-Japanese War, visual information was irreverent, eye-catching, and exaggerated. It reminded one of the Battle of Liaoyang and, in the United States, the Civil War. It heightened the threat that the Japanese military was poised to engage the United States in a potentially apocalyptic race war.