2025-07-23
From the Khalkhin Gol Events to the Neutrality Pact: Relations Between the USSR and Japan in the Reports of Soviet Diplomats in Tokyo (1939–1941)
10.55105/2658-6444-2025-1-73-92
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Soviet-Japanese relations were going through difficult times. The Mongolian issue and border incidents continually worsened bilateral contacts. In a state of hostility and open confrontation, the authorities of both...
2025-07-23
The Failure of Japanese Whale Diplomacy: A Constructivist Analysis of Changes in International Norms
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10.55105/2658-6444-2025-1-119-149
This research examines the failure of Japanese whale diplomacy following the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, with a focus on Japan’s attempts to change the conservationist view of whales to the one f...
2025-07-23
Rewarding Japanese Servicemen With Russian Awards During World War I and the Russian Civil War (1914–1922)
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10.55105/2658-6444-2025-1-48-72
The period from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the 1917 October Revolution was a time of political, economic, and cultural rapprochement between Russia and Japan. Moreover, this rapprochement was observed after the events of 1917 for several mo...