A history of Russo-Japanese relations : : over two centuries of cooperation and competition / / edited by Dmitry V. Streltsov and Shimotomai Nobuo.

• TeilnehmendeR: Strelʹt︠s︡ov, D. V.; Shimotomai, Nobuo, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (659 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Foreword / Makoto Iokibe -- Foreword / Anatoliĭ V. Torkunov -- Preface / Dmitry V. Streltsov and Nobuo Shimotomai -- 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 / Michiko Ikuta -- 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 / Fumitaka Kurosawa -- Russo-Japanese Relations from 1905 to 1916: from Enemies to Allies / Yuriĭ S. Pestushko and Yaroslav A. Shulatov -- -- World War I, Revolution, and Intervention: from the Perspective of the Japanese Diaspora in Russia / Teruyuki Hara -- Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War and Japanese 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 / Takeshi Tomita -- 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 / Ryōchi Tobe -- 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 / Sumio Hatano -- 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 / Takeshi Tomita -- The “Маnchurian Blitzkrieg” of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union / Alekseĭ A. Кirichenko and Sergey V. Grishachev -- -- From Peace to the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations: Soviet-Japanese Territorial Relations, 1951–1970 / Yasuko Kouno and Nobuo Shimotomai -- 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 / Haruko Ozawa -- 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” / Nobuo Shimotomai -- Perestroika and Russian-Japanese Relations, 1985–1991 / Konstantin O. Sarkisov -- -- From the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001 / Kazuhiko Tōgō -- 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 / Hidetake Kawaraji.