Foreword  Iokibe Makoto Foreword  Anatoliĭ 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  Yuriĭ 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 Ryōchi  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 “Маnchurian Blitzkrieg” of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union  Alekseĭ A. Кirichenko 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  Tōgō 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, Valeriĭ 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