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This chapter is a review of Russian opinions, views, and assessments of Tokyo’s diplomatic activities in the last decade. The author is far from having the slightest ambitions to reveal anything new to Japanese colleagues, though he has something to say on how Russian politicians, public opinion leaders, and Japanologists see the problem. It is also an attempt: (1) to assemble together an “opinion jig-saw puzzle” of numerous small, often oddly shaped, and messy pieces of information; (2) to find common denominators; and (3) to formulate some prognostic assessments. The Russian vision of Japanese foreign policy may appear somewhat distorted in a slightly curved mirror that reflects, at times, not so much real problems of the Japanese foreign policy as Russia’s own foreign policy anxieties and phobia.
Financial support from the Nomura Foundation and the University of Niigata Prefecture is gratefully acknowledged.
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Streltsov Dmitry, “Rossiiskiy vector yaponskoy vneshnepoliticheskoy strategii v ATR,” [Russian vector of Japanese foreign policy strategy in APR] in Yaponiya v Aziatsko-Tikhookeanskom Regione (Japan in the Asia-Pacific Region. Political, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Aspects). (Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, 2009), 36.
Kazuo Ogura, “Major Developments in Japanese Foreign Policy since the Mid-1990s,” in Rien T. Segers, ed., A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century:An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems (New York: Routledge, 2008), 112.
Alexander N. Panov, coordinator, Current State of Russia’s Relations with Japan and Prospects for Their Development. Russian International Affairs Council, (Moscow: Spetskniga, 2012): 6.
Sergey Chugrov, “Halhyn golyn dainy tuhayd uzel bodyul Yapan” [“Japanese view on the Nomonhan Incident”] in Sanuydavgyn Gandbold and Gonchigiyn Ariunbold, eds., Halhyn golyn dain, tuuh, orchin ye [Nomonhan War: History and Modern Times”] (in Mongolian) (Ulaanbaatar: Udirlagyn Academi, 2009), 98–105.
Expression by Koichi Iwabuchi. See Iwabuchi K. “Symptomatic Transformations. Japan in the Media and Cultural Globalization,” in Rien L. Segers, ed., A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century. An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems (New York: Routledge, 2008), 128.
Elgena Molodyakova, ed., Globalnyie vyzovy—yaponskii otvet [Global Challenges—Japanese Response] (Moscow: AIRO-XXI, 2008), 9–12.
Some Western and Japanese scholars prefer to speak about one big triangle Japan-United States-China, as “troubled,” however, where there is no place for Russia. See Takashi Inoguchi and G. John Ikenberry, “Introduction” in Inoguchi T. and G. J. Ikenberry, eds., The Troubled Triangle: Japan, the United States and China (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Bhubhindar Singh, Japan’s Security Identity From a Peace-State to an International-State (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies) (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 122–123.
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Chugrov, S.V. (2015). Foreign Policy in Statu Nascendi. In: Inoguchi, T. (eds) Japanese and Russian Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488459_9
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