Japanese-Russian Relations Under Brezhnev and Andropov

This study by the leading Japanese specialist in the field offers a comprehensive analysis of the deterioration of Soviet-Japanese relations in the 1970s and 1980s -- a period when the two countries clashed over issues ranging from military security to fishing rights and their competing claims to the southern Kuriles, Japan's "e;Northern Territories"e;, awarded to Stalin at Yalta.