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• Kuril Islands
  ...oups. Several of the Kurils are today disputed territory between Japan and Russia. ...to the word ''shisam'' ("the great and nearby") used to refer to Japan or Russia.
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• Nikolai Rezanov
  ...the great distance between Russian settlements in Siberia and Alaska, and Russia's breadbasket in eastern Europe / central Asia, it was also hoped that such ...and asked a variety of questions, including inquiring as to which products Russia would offer in trade, how many ships would come and how often, and whether
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• Kushun kotan
  ...r community.</ref> was an encampment on [[Sakhalin]] Island established by Russia in [[1853]], dismantled the following year, and further destroyed by [[Mats ...rea in preparation for negotiations with the Russians as to a formal Japan-Russia border on Sakhalin. Russian individuals came ashore there at least one more
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• Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky
  ...771]], and who presented Japanese officials with a fabricated warning that Russia was planning a serious naval attack against [[Matsumae han]], in [[Ezo]] ([
  801 bytes (110 words) - 21:06, 9 April 2017
• Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
  ...lished there by [[Gennady Nevelskoy]], as a means of claiming Sakhalin for Russia and defending that claim against the Japanese.
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• Kankai ibun
  ...Tsudayû, did not provide information quite as extensive or reliable about Russia as another castaway, [[Daikokuya Kodayu|Daikokuya Kôdayû]], had a decade
  938 bytes (130 words) - 17:25, 20 August 2014
• Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin
  ...kyû]] in [[1853]]-[[1854]], which ended in the signing of treaties between Russia and those two island nations. In the meanwhile, in 1854, expeditionary forces of the [[Russia-America Company]] occupied [[Sakhalin Island]]. Their actions were later ju
  4 KB (611 words) - 01:54, 6 February 2020
• Young America
  ...escort a number of Russian sailors from Shimoda and [[Heda]] back home to Russia. Ultimately, however, negotiations between Babcock and Putyatin broke down;
  930 bytes (128 words) - 22:45, 20 February 2020
• Hayashi Tadasu
  ...[[Meiji period]] and one-time [[Foreign Minister]], who served in England, Russia, and China, and was the chief Japanese official involved in the signing of ...ister of Foreign Affairs in [[1891]], and later Japanese Consul-General to Russia, [[Qing Dynasty]] China, and the United Kingdom for brief periods. While in
  3 KB (369 words) - 01:05, 21 October 2014
• Iriomote mountain cat
  ...n to the [[Tsushima]] mountain cat, and to species across the region, from Russia and Northeast China down to Taiwan.
  969 bytes (146 words) - 11:36, 1 February 2020
• Seikanron
  ...mission, to punish Korea for its insolence. Two, many expressed fears that Russia, the United Kingdom, or another of the Western powers might gain significan ...should go badly at all, it would present far too great an opportunity for Russia or Britain to then come to "interfere in our internal affairs." He advocate
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• 1689
  *The [[Treaty of Nerchinsk]] establishes the border between Russia and [[Qing Dynasty]] China.
  1 KB (142 words) - 08:55, 23 September 2016
• Bashford Dean
  ...d immediately onto the faculty, and began making research trips to Alaska, Russia, Europe, and Japan. While in Japan around [[1900]], he began collecting Jap ...as formally established in [[1912]]. Dean made a number of trips to Japan, Russia, Alaska, and elsewhere, founding the Department of Reptiles and Fishes at t
  3 KB (468 words) - 13:38, 9 November 2015
• 1807
  ...porated into shogunal territory, in response to and as a defense against [[Russia]]n encroachment.
  988 bytes (126 words) - 08:42, 26 July 2020
• 1821
  ...raged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].
  1 KB (143 words) - 11:35, 3 January 2020
• Russo-Japanese War
  ...into leasing Port Arthur and the entire Liaodong Peninsula to Russia. For Russia this meant the acquisition of an ice-free naval base in the Far East to sup ...y engaged in Korea, successfully increasing her influence in that country. Russia also had interest in Korea, and although at first Russians and Japanese man
  8 KB (1,205 words) - 10:51, 16 December 2021
• Treaty of Kiakhta
  ...ost significant treaties signed between [[Qing Dynasty]] China and Tsarist Russia.
  1 KB (189 words) - 19:42, 3 March 2015
• Kudo Heisuke
  ...Russians would also help provide further intelligence & information about Russia and European developments for the shogunate, he argued, going on to suggest ...lting Tanuma ordered Matsumae to provide a series of reports on trade with Russia; this, in turn, later led to the 1785 investigative mission.
  4 KB (670 words) - 21:36, 28 January 2018
• Ryukyu kankei monjo
  ...h Westerners, including individuals from England, France, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States, among others, in the 1840s-1850s.
  2 KB (220 words) - 22:15, 21 December 2017
• Zeng Jize
  ...rsburg]], which settled territorial disputes in Xinjiang between China and Russia.<ref name=britan>"[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/282770/Ili-cri
  1 KB (187 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2016

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