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, Hōsei 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).

• ForewordIokibe MakotoForewordAnatoliĭ V. TorkunovPrefaceDmitry V. Streltsov and Shimotomai NobuoNotes to ReadersNotes on ContributorsThe Legacy of the 18th and 19th Centuries: from Hierarchical and Ethnocentric Foreign Relations to a Western Model of Equal International RelationsIkuta MichikoRusso-Japanese Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Exploration and NegotiationSergey V. GrishachevThe Diplomatic Dimension of the Russo-Japanese War: the Portsmouth Conference and Its AftermathTosh MinoharaRussia and Japan in the Late 19th to 20th Centuries: the Road to War and PeaceIgor V. LukoyanovJapanese-Russian Relations after the Treaty of Portsmouth: between Friendship and SuspicionKurosawa FumitakaRusso-Japanese Relations from 1905 to 1916: from Enemies to AlliesYuriĭ S. Pestushko and Yaroslav A. ShulatovWorld War I, Revolution, and Intervention: from the Perspective of the Japanese Diaspora in RussiaHara TeruyukiAllied Intervention in the Russian Civil War and Japan’s Troops in Russia’s Far East, 1918–1922Sergey V. Grishachev and Vladimir G. DatsyshenJapanese-Russian Relations in the 1920s: Struggles between Anti-Soviet and Pro-Soviet ForcesTomita TakeshiSoviet-Japanese Relations in the 1920s: from Hostility to CoexistenceVladimir A. Grinyuk, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Anastasia S. LozhkinaJapan’s Policy toward the Soviet Union, 1931–1941: the Japanese-Soviet Non-aggression PactTobe RyōchiTranslated by Radmir CompelSoviet-Japanese Relations after the Manchurian Incident, 1931–1939Anastasia S. Lozhkina, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Kirill E. CherevkoWartime Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union, 1941–1945Hatano SumioIssues of Dispute in Soviet-Japanese Relations during World War II: the Origins of Territorial DisputeAndrey I. KravtsevichThe Reality of the Siberian Internment: Japanese Captives in the Soviet Union and Their Movements after RepatriationTomita TakeshiTranslated by Sherzod MuminovThe “Маnchurian Blitzkrieg” of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet UnionAlekseĭ A. КirichenkoFrom Peace to the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations: Soviet-Japanese Territorial Relations, 1951–1970Kouno Yasuko and Shimotomai NobuoTranslated by Robert D. EldridgePostwar Relations between the USSR and Japan from the Late 1940s to the 1950sSergey V. ChugrovSoviet-Japanese Relations and the Principle of the “Indivisibility of Politics and Economics,” 1960–1985Ozawa HarukoTranslated by Sherzod MuminovSoviet-Japanese Relations from 1960 to 1985: an Era of Ups and DownsViktor V. Kuz’minkov and Viktor N. PavlyatenkoThe Rise to Power of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Policy of “Expanding Equilibrium”Shimotomai NobuoPerestroika and Russian-Japanese Relations, 1985–1991Konstantin O. SarkisovFrom the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001Tōgō KazuhikoRussian Policy toward Japan, 1992–2001: from Over-optimism to Realism in Developing RelationsAlexander N. PanovJapanese-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, 2001–2015Kawaraji HidetakeRussia and Japan at the Beginning of the 21st Century: an Era of Untapped PotentialOleg I. Kazakov, Valeriĭ O. Kistanov and Dmitry V. StreltsovThe “Northern Territories” Problem: a Continuing Legacy of the San Francisco SystemKimie HaraThe Territorial Issue in Russian-Japanese Relations: an OverviewDmitry V. StreltsovList of NamesIndex