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Japan–Soviet Union relations
- Invasion of the Kuril IslandsThe decision to invade the Kuril Islands emerged from a sudden shift in Soviet military strategy during August 1945. Planners initially targeted Hokkaido…
- Soviet invasion of South SakhalinThe Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin kept troops fighting for more than a week after Japan had already surrendered. It struck the southern half of Sakhalin…
- Surrender of JapanAt 8:15 in the morning on the 6th of August 1945, a single aircraft released a single bomb over Hiroshima. Sixteen hours later, President Harry S.
- Soviet–Japanese Neutrality PactAfter Stalin signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, he did something almost no one had seen him do. He personally saw off Japan's Foreign Minister…
- Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956The Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 ended a state of war that had lingered for more than a decade after the guns fell silent across Asia.
- Anti-Comintern PactOn the 25th of November 1936, in the offices of a semi-official diplomatic bureau that operated outside Germany's formal foreign ministry, two ambassadors…
- Soviet invasion of ManchuriaThe Soviet invasion of Manchuria began at one minute past midnight Trans-Baikal time on the 9th of August 1945, simultaneously on three fronts.
- Soviet–Japanese WarThe Soviet-Japanese War began at one minute past midnight Trans-Baikal time on the 9th of August 1945, when three Red Army fronts crossed into Manchuria…
- Hokushin-ronHokushin-ron gave Imperial Japan a compass: point the empire's expansion north, into Manchuria and Siberia, not south across the Pacific.
- Japanese Instrument of SurrenderThe Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the printed agreement that ended World War II, signed on the deck of a warship anchored in Tokyo Bay just after nine…
- KantokuenKantokuen called for seven Japanese armies to invade and occupy the Russian Far East. Most of the empire's naval and air forces backed them, making it the…
- Battles of Khalkhin GolThe Battles of Khalkhin Gol began on the 11th of May 1939, with a patrol of Mongolian cavalry, somewhere between 70 and 90 men, riding into disputed…
- Kuril Islands disputeThe Kuril Islands dispute is one of the longest-running territorial standoffs of the modern era. Four small islands at the southern tip of the Kuril chain…
- Treaty of San FranciscoOn the 8th of September 1951, inside the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, representatives of 49 nations gathered to sign a document that would…
- Richard SorgeRichard Sorge arrived in Yokohama on the 6th of September 1933, carrying press credentials from the most prestigious newspaper in Germany and a Nazi Party…