A History of Russo-Japanese Relations
Over Two Centuries of Cooperation and Competition
Published on 20. June 2019
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Hardback
660 pages
978-90-04-40000-9 (ISBN)
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This publication is the result of a three-year research project between eminent Russian and Japanese historians. It offers an an in-depth analysis of the history of relations between Russia and Japan from the 18th century until the present day. The format of the publication as a parallel history presents views and interpretations from Russian and Japanese perspectives that showcase the differences and the similarities in their joint history. The fourteen core sections, organized along chronological lines, provide assessments on the complex and sensitive issues of bilateral Russo-Japanese relations, including the territory problem as well as economic exchange.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40000-9 (9789004400009)
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Dmitry V. STRELTSOV is head of the Afro-Asian Department at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University). He is the author of numerous academic works, including the book Vneshnepoliticheskie prioritety Yaponii v Aziatsko-Tikhookeanskom regione (The Foreign Policy Priorities of Japan in the Asia Pacific, 2015).
SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo is professor at the Faculty of Law and Politics, Hosei University, Tokyo. He specializes in Russian and CIS history, and has been an honorary research fellow and visiting scholar at various institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. His recent publications include Kami to kakumei (God and Revolution, 2017).
SHIMOTOMAI Nobuo is professor at the Faculty of Law and Politics, Hosei University, Tokyo. He specializes in Russian and CIS history, and has been an honorary research fellow and visiting scholar at various institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. His recent publications include Kami to kakumei (God and Revolution, 2017).
Content
Foreword
?Iokibe Makoto
Foreword
?Anatolii V. Torkunov
Preface
?Dmitry V. Streltsov and Shimotomai Nobuo
Notes to Readers
Notes on Contributors
The Legacy of the 18th and 19th Centuries: from Hierarchical and Ethnocentric Foreign Relations to a Western Model of Equal International Relations
?Ikuta Michiko
Russo-Japanese Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Exploration and Negotiation
?Sergey V. Grishachev
The Diplomatic Dimension of the Russo-Japanese War: the Portsmouth Conference and Its Aftermath
?Tosh Minohara
Russia and Japan in the Late 19th to 20th Centuries: the Road to War and Peace
?Igor V. Lukoyanov
Japanese-Russian Relations after the Treaty of Portsmouth: between Friendship and Suspicion
?Kurosawa Fumitaka
Russo-Japanese Relations from 1905 to 1916: from Enemies to Allies
?Yurii S. Pestushko and Yaroslav A. Shulatov
World War I, Revolution, and Intervention: from the Perspective of the Japanese Diaspora in Russia
?Hara Teruyuki
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War and Japan's Troops in Russia's Far East, 1918-1922
?Sergey V. Grishachev and Vladimir G. Datsyshen
Japanese-Russian Relations in the 1920s: Struggles between Anti-Soviet and Pro-Soviet Forces
?Tomita Takeshi
Soviet-Japanese Relations in the 1920s: from Hostility to Coexistence
?Vladimir A. Grinyuk, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Anastasia S. Lozhkina
Japan's Policy toward the Soviet Union, 1931-1941: the Japanese-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
?Tobe Ryochi
?Translated by Radmir Compel
Soviet-Japanese Relations after the Manchurian Incident, 1931-1939
?Anastasia S. Lozhkina, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Kirill E. Cherevko
Wartime Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union, 1941-1945
?Hatano Sumio
Issues of Dispute in Soviet-Japanese Relations during World War II: the Origins of Territorial Dispute
?Andrey I. Kravtsevich
The Reality of the Siberian Internment: Japanese Captives in the Soviet Union and Their Movements after Repatriation
?Tomita Takeshi
?Translated by Sherzod Muminov
The "??nchurian Blitzkrieg" of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
?Aleksei? A. ?irichenko
From Peace to the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations: Soviet-Japanese Territorial Relations, 1951-1970
?Kouno Yasuko and Shimotomai Nobuo
?Translated by Robert D. Eldridge
Postwar Relations between the USSR and Japan from the Late 1940s to the 1950s
?Sergey V. Chugrov
Soviet-Japanese Relations and the Principle of the "Indivisibility of Politics and Economics," 1960-1985
?Ozawa Haruko
?Translated by Sherzod Muminov
Soviet-Japanese Relations from 1960 to 1985: an Era of Ups and Downs
?Viktor V. Kuz'minkov and Viktor N. Pavlyatenko
The Rise to Power of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Policy of "Expanding Equilibrium"
?Shimotomai Nobuo
Perestroika and Russian-Japanese Relations, 1985-1991
?Konstantin O. Sarkisov
From the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001
?Togo Kazuhiko
Russian Policy toward Japan, 1992-2001: from Over-optimism to Realism in Developing Relations
?Alexander N. Panov
Japanese-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, 2001-2015
?Kawaraji Hidetake
Russia and Japan at the Beginning of the 21st Century: an Era of Untapped Potential
?Oleg I. Kazakov, Valerii? O. Kistanov and Dmitry V. Streltsov
The "Northern Territories" Problem: a Continuing Legacy of the San Francisco System
?Kimie Hara
The Territorial Issue in Russian-Japanese Relations: an Overview
?Dmitry V. Streltsov
List of Names
Index
?Iokibe Makoto
Foreword
?Anatolii V. Torkunov
Preface
?Dmitry V. Streltsov and Shimotomai Nobuo
Notes to Readers
Notes on Contributors
The Legacy of the 18th and 19th Centuries: from Hierarchical and Ethnocentric Foreign Relations to a Western Model of Equal International Relations
?Ikuta Michiko
Russo-Japanese Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Exploration and Negotiation
?Sergey V. Grishachev
The Diplomatic Dimension of the Russo-Japanese War: the Portsmouth Conference and Its Aftermath
?Tosh Minohara
Russia and Japan in the Late 19th to 20th Centuries: the Road to War and Peace
?Igor V. Lukoyanov
Japanese-Russian Relations after the Treaty of Portsmouth: between Friendship and Suspicion
?Kurosawa Fumitaka
Russo-Japanese Relations from 1905 to 1916: from Enemies to Allies
?Yurii S. Pestushko and Yaroslav A. Shulatov
World War I, Revolution, and Intervention: from the Perspective of the Japanese Diaspora in Russia
?Hara Teruyuki
Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War and Japan's Troops in Russia's Far East, 1918-1922
?Sergey V. Grishachev and Vladimir G. Datsyshen
Japanese-Russian Relations in the 1920s: Struggles between Anti-Soviet and Pro-Soviet Forces
?Tomita Takeshi
Soviet-Japanese Relations in the 1920s: from Hostility to Coexistence
?Vladimir A. Grinyuk, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Anastasia S. Lozhkina
Japan's Policy toward the Soviet Union, 1931-1941: the Japanese-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
?Tobe Ryochi
?Translated by Radmir Compel
Soviet-Japanese Relations after the Manchurian Incident, 1931-1939
?Anastasia S. Lozhkina, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Kirill E. Cherevko
Wartime Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union, 1941-1945
?Hatano Sumio
Issues of Dispute in Soviet-Japanese Relations during World War II: the Origins of Territorial Dispute
?Andrey I. Kravtsevich
The Reality of the Siberian Internment: Japanese Captives in the Soviet Union and Their Movements after Repatriation
?Tomita Takeshi
?Translated by Sherzod Muminov
The "??nchurian Blitzkrieg" of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
?Aleksei? A. ?irichenko
From Peace to the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations: Soviet-Japanese Territorial Relations, 1951-1970
?Kouno Yasuko and Shimotomai Nobuo
?Translated by Robert D. Eldridge
Postwar Relations between the USSR and Japan from the Late 1940s to the 1950s
?Sergey V. Chugrov
Soviet-Japanese Relations and the Principle of the "Indivisibility of Politics and Economics," 1960-1985
?Ozawa Haruko
?Translated by Sherzod Muminov
Soviet-Japanese Relations from 1960 to 1985: an Era of Ups and Downs
?Viktor V. Kuz'minkov and Viktor N. Pavlyatenko
The Rise to Power of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Policy of "Expanding Equilibrium"
?Shimotomai Nobuo
Perestroika and Russian-Japanese Relations, 1985-1991
?Konstantin O. Sarkisov
From the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001
?Togo Kazuhiko
Russian Policy toward Japan, 1992-2001: from Over-optimism to Realism in Developing Relations
?Alexander N. Panov
Japanese-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, 2001-2015
?Kawaraji Hidetake
Russia and Japan at the Beginning of the 21st Century: an Era of Untapped Potential
?Oleg I. Kazakov, Valerii? O. Kistanov and Dmitry V. Streltsov
The "Northern Territories" Problem: a Continuing Legacy of the San Francisco System
?Kimie Hara
The Territorial Issue in Russian-Japanese Relations: an Overview
?Dmitry V. Streltsov
List of Names
Index