Kuril Ping Pong. 100 years of struggle for islands

The history of Russia"s relationship with its Far Eastern neighbor - Japan is not so long. The first official contact occurred in 1792, and diplomatic relations were established only in 1855. But one and a half centuries of interstate relations, many events have contained many events, which, unfortunately, were characterized not so much of good neighborliness and cooperation as contradictions and armed conflicts.
In the book proposed to the reader, an attempt was made to detailed consideration of the main aspects of Soviet-Japanese, and after Russian-Japanese relations.
Anatoly Arkadievich Koshkin-historian, publicist, doctor of historical sciences, professor, member of the Executive Council of the Russian Association of World War II, one of the leading specialists in modern Japan and Russian-Japanese relations