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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 "Manchurian 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.

"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"--