The Russian Push Toward Japan
Lensen, George Alexander Excerpt from The Russian Push Toward Japan: Russo-Japanese Relations, 1697-1875World War. As late as June, - Only two months before Russia plunged into the Far Eastern holocaust - a former prime minister of Japan and one-time ambassador to Moscow told the Soviet ambassa dor that if the Soviet Army and the Japanese Navy were to join forces, Japan and the Soviet Union together would become the strongest powers in the world.The Japanese attitude ...