Japanese-Russian Relations Under Brezhnev and Andropov

An analysis of the deterioration of Soviet-Japanese relations in the 1970s and 1980s. It examines basic factors shaping the relationship between the two countries, and their conflicting views of the conflict, security, military force and territorial rights, as well as key events of the period.



This study by the leading Japanese specialist in the field offers a comprehensive analysis of the deterioration of Soviet-Japanese relations in the 1970s and 1980s -- a period when the two countries clashed over issues ranging from military security to fishing rights and their competing claims to the southern Kuriles, Japan's "Northern Territories", awarded to Stalin at Yalta.