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The Soviet Union was the main raison d’être of the alliance1 between Japan and the United States. Before Second World War, the Soviet Union was not the main issue between both countries, though President Theodore Roosevelt took the trouble to mediate warring Japan and Russia to sign the Portsmouth Peace Treaty in 1905, and Japan sent its troops to Siberia in 1918, urged by the United States.
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Kissinger recounts how the Soviet leadership had no other choice than receiving President Nixon, even after the U.S. bombardment in North Vietnam brought casualty among the Russians. Because Nixon had visited Peking for rapprochement, Moscow did not want to be left behind. Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (Little Brown, 1979), Chapter 25.
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Kawato, A. (2011). How Russia Matters in Japan-U.S. Alliance. In: Inoguchi, T., Ikenberry, G.J., Sato, Y. (eds) The U.S.-Japan Security Alliance. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230120150_10
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