Title: “Russian-Japanese Relations: Repeating Reversals” Date and Time: September 22, 12:30
Venue: A-130 Seminar Room, FEASS
Speaker: Yaroslav Shulatov, Waseda University, Tokyo
Abstract: This lecture will explore Russo-Japanese relations from a historical perspective, taking into account the roots of bilateral contacts, cultural exchange, and military conflict. The gap between the two sides’ mutual images, the influence of third parties on both, and the numerous pendulum-like switches “from friend to foe” not only help us to understand Russian-Japanese relations today but also offer lessons for thinking through the international relations of Russia’s and Japan’s neighbors.
Bio: Yaroslav Shulatov is a professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He received a PhD in history from Khabarovsk State Pedagogical University and a second PhD in law from Keio University. He has written on Japanese-Russian relations for a wide range of publications, including several chapters for the 2019 volume “A History of Russo-Japanese Relations: Over Two Centuries of Cooperation and Competition” (Brill). His primary areas of interest are military and diplomatic history from the late nineteenth through the middle of the twentieth century.