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Let's talk about Japanese-Russian relations....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Well, howdy there, internet people people let's bow again so today we're going to talk

0:27.2

about Russian Japanese relations how they sit on the foreign policy scene, particularly in how it pertains to Ukraine.

0:41.0

And we all know how this started.

0:44.0

Moscow signs a statement of, you know, hey, don't worry, we're not gonna come after you.

0:51.0

We're not gonna invade. We're gonna be neutral, don't worry about it.

0:55.1

And then, you know, four years later, country looks a little weak, so they invade, take some land, and don't give it back.

1:01.8

So that's how it started, but we're not talking about

1:04.4

Ukraine right now. We're talking about Japan in 1945. In 1941, Moscow said

1:12.3

that you know they weren't going to go after Japan.

1:15.8

But towards the end of World War II, well, they had a little change of heart and they seized the Crowal Islands. Now because of this, Japan

1:26.8

for a long time didn't want to criticize Russia on the international stage.

1:35.0

Didn't want to take a hard stance because there was always the hope of getting this land that they referred to as the northern territories returned to them.

1:44.8

This is something that historically was Japanese land.

1:51.8

They've apparently given up on that or they realize that they're not going to

1:58.0

get the islands back by remaining quiet. So when Russia invaded Ukraine, the response from Japan

2:10.0

was a little bit different this time. They said nothing really when Crimea happened. But this

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