From enemies to allies: The war and Russo-Japanese relations

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2006

Yayıncı:

Routledge

Dil:

en

In 1905, Japan and Russia ended their war and signed a peace treaty, and in 1916 the Japanese government proposed to Russia a draft of an alliance that was essentially an unlimited offensive-defensive pact.1 How did this happen? How did the Japanese and the Russians transform their relationship from enemies to allies in a short decade? This chapter explores this transformation from the standpoint of Japanese and Russian domestic politics as well as the evolving international environment in the world, and in East Asia in particular. It touches upon Japan and Russia's evolving relationship with their respective allies, Great Britain and France, and the significance of China and Germany as contributing factors. The chapter discusses the three agreements (public and secret) negotiated by Japan and Russia in 1907, 1910, and 1912, which effectively demarcated their respective spheres of influence in Manchuria and Mongolia; the attempts of France and Russia to join the Anglo-Japanese Alliance at the beginning of World War I; and the successful negotiations in Tokyo and Petrograd that led to the conclusion of a Russo-Japanese treaty of alliance in 1916. This was the path from enmity to alliance taken by the protagonists of the war of 1904-5.

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