The German army and the Russian army were two of the best armies in the world at the time and so that makes me curious, what if Russia trained the Imperial Japanese Army instead of Germany? If Russia trained the IJA, I believe that during World War I, the IJA would not be sympathetic towards Germany's cause and later there would be no Tripartite Pact. How differently would the Russo-Japanese War turn out? With Russia having trained their army and with no Tripartite Pact, would Japan work out some kind of deal with the Soviet Union once the Anglo-Japanese Alliance is terminated?