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• Iosif Goshkevich
  ...foreign settlement and trade in the 1850s, Goshkevich served for a time as Russia's resident consul there.
  860 bytes (120 words) - 21:01, 9 April 2017
• 1799
  ...porated into shogunal territory, in response to and as a defense against [[Russia]]n encroachment. *The Russia America Company is chartered.
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• Moriyama Einosuke
  ...tthew Perry]] of the United States and [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] of Russia.<ref>Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', Interna ...used by most Western countries, and Jan 26 on the Julian calendar used by Russia until 1918.</ref> Moriyama signed the Dutch-language version of the [[Treat
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• Treaty of Shimoda
  ...used by most Western countries, and Jan 26 on the Julian calendar used by Russia until 1918.</ref> ...Treaty of Peace and Amity, signed between the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] and [[Russia]] was the first of a number of agreements seeking to define geographical bo
  3 KB (422 words) - 23:57, 14 January 2016
• Foote
  ...d by [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] to carry a number of his men home to Russia in [[1855]]
  456 bytes (69 words) - 03:03, 3 May 2020
• Daikokuya Kodayu
  ...became perhaps the most prominent [[Edo period]] Japanese to spend time in Russia, and to report back to the shogunate about that country. ...ikokuya's ability to provide the shogunate with valuable information about Russia, he was instead allowed to live, and was interrogated by [[Katsuragawa Hosh
  2 KB (244 words) - 19:41, 12 March 2017
• Takezoe Shinichiro
  ...eed to. Beijing attempted to renounce the treaty and have Wanyan executed; Russia refused to have the treaty renounced, and the other Western powers pressure
  2 KB (362 words) - 10:10, 1 July 2017
• Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius
  ...te]] and the [[Convention of Kanagawa|United States]], [[Treaty of Shimoda|Russia]], and the [[Anglo-Japanese Convention of 1854|United Kingdom]] in [[1854]] ...), 12.</ref> amidst the shogunate signing treaties with the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom all within a short period.
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• 1793
  ...odayu|Daikokuya Kôdayû]] and the sailor Isokichi, castaways returning from Russia, are interrogated in an audience with Shogun [[Tokugawa Ienari]]. ...for entry to [[Nagasaki]] harbor to [[Adam Laxman]], as representative of Russia.
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• Sakhalin
  ...[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]], which stretches north alongside the eastern coast of Russia's Khabarovsk Krai. It is separated from the Asian mainland by the Straits o ...the Kurils and most of Ezo, in contrast to Japanese territory in blue, and Russia in red.<ref>Tessa Morris-Suzuki, ''Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation'
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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
  3 KB (453 words) - 20:54, 9 April 2017
• 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
  2 KB (283 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2020
• 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.
  870 bytes (118 words) - 23:58, 1 December 2019
• 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
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• 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
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• 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

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