Kuril Ping-Pong. 100 Years of Struggle for the Islands

The history of Russia's relations with its Far Eastern neighbor - Japan is not very long. The first official contact occurred in 1792, and diplomatic relations were established only in 1855. However, a century and a half of intergovernmental ties encompassed many events that, unfortunately, were characterized not so much by good neighborliness and cooperation as by contradictions and armed conflicts. In the book offered to the reader, an attempt is made to examine in detail the main aspects of Soviet-Japanese, and later Russian-Japanese relations. Anatoly Arkadyevich Koshkin — historian, publicist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, member of the executive council of the Russian Association of Historians of World War II, one of the leading specialists on modern Japan and Russian-Japanese relations.