JAPAN: ATTEMPTS TO CONTINUE COLD WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. READING THE BOOK “RUSSIA AND JAPAN: KNOTS OF CONTRADICTIONS” BY A.A. KOSHKIN

Abstract

The new book by the specialist on modern Japan, Professor A.A. Koshkin places the major emphasis on the historic events, which complicate present relations of the two posers. The author calls these events the knots of contradictions. The book analyzes in detail the historic facts and related documents of the Russian and Japanese parties. The Japanese historiography interprets some of these facts as the proof of the claims of the land of the rising sun on the Russian territories. The study of the Russian and Japanese arguments leads the author to the conclusion that the present day politics of Japan towards the Russian Federation originates from the Russia’s neighbor militarist past brewed on nationalism.

Keywords

• japan
• russia
• russian-japanese relations
• the kuril islands