Blagoveshchensk Massacre and Beyond: The Landscape of Violence in the Amur Province in the Spring and Summer of 1900

Creator

Sergey Glebov, Smith CollegeFollow

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Russia’s North Pacific Centres and Peripheries

Inclusive Pages

211-228

Creation Date

2023

Publisher

Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)

City

Heidelberg, Germany

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Full book, Russia's North Pacific: Centres and Peripheries is available in the Open Library

Document Type

Book Chapter

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In the early 1930s, both coastal and offshore Japanese fisheries in Kamchatka caused strong tensions between Japan and Soviet authorities. Japanese salmon fishery companies then turned their attention to the East Bering Sea near Alaska. The Japanese government operated its experimental salmon fishery in the international waters of Bristol Bay in Alaska in 1936–1937. The operation immediately triggered massive protests from the US side. Even though the Japanese government was seriously concerned about the situation, Japan could not step back easily, as a compromise with the USA would weaken Japan’s position in its negotiations on a new fishery treaty with the USSR. By examining several conflicts concerning the Bering Sea between Japan, the USSR, and the USA, we come to a fuller understanding of the rivalry between Japan and Russia regarding fisheries in Russian Far East waters in the 1930s.