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===[[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japanophilia===
The CUP were greatly influenced by Japan. The Japanese Empire had championed [[File:PanAsian.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Pan-Asianism]] which had greatly inspired the CUP's [[File:Caliphate.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Islamism|Pan-Islamism]] and [[File:PanTurk.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|Pan-Turkism]]. Since Japan defeated the Russian during the Russo-Japanese War, the CUP believed that the Ottoman Empire would defeat the Western Powers in a similar war. The CUP admired the Japanese for their embracement of science without losing their "Eastern spiritual essence". In the CUP eyes this showed that they could embrace science and [[File:Atheism.png]] secularism whilst also embracing [[File:Caliphate.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism#Pan-Islamism|Pan-Islamism]] and keeping their Islamic identity. The fact that the Japanese Empire had defeated the Russian Empire, who were the Ottomans' main rival, made the CUP become absolute Japanophiles. The CUP intended to make the Ottoman Empire the "Japan of the Near East". The CUP saw the 1908 Young Turk Revolution as the Ottoman equivalent of the 1867-1868 Boshin War. In the west, they were terrified of the so called "Yellow Peril" (which states that the peoples of the East were going to destroy the powers of the West), but the CUP were excited by the idea of the Western Empires being terrified of the Eastern peoples.