Dispatch of Japanese military forces to the Russian Far East
Japanese intervention in Siberia
Part of the Russian Civil War
Japanese soldiers in Siberia
Date
12 January 1918[1] — 24 June 1922 (4 years, 5 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location
Former Russian Empire
Result
Japanese tactical victory
Japanese withdraw from most occupied territories following internal political pressure[2]
Japan occupies northern Sakhalin until 1925
Belligerents
Russian SFSR Far Eastern Republic
Empire of Japan White Movement
Commanders and leaders
Leon Trotsky Jukums Vacietis Sergey Kamenev A. Krasnoshchyokov
Yui Mitsue Otani Kikuzo Grigory Semyonov
Strength
600,000 (peak)
70,000 (total)
Casualties and losses
7,791 (1922 only)
698 killed or missing in action
2,189 died of disease
1,421 wounded
3,482 sick and frostbitten[3]
3,116 (total)
1,399 killed
1,717 died of disease[4]
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Ganghwa (1875)
Ryukyu (1879)
Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan (1894–1895)
Liaodong Peninsula (1895)
China (1899–1901)
Manchuria and Korea (1904–1905)
Korea (1910)
Taishō period
Tsingtao (1914)
Siberia (1918–1922)
Shōwa period
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia (1931–1936)
China (1937–45)
French Indochina (1940)
Asia-Pacific (1941–1945)
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Japanese intervention
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Posolskeya
Nikolayevsk
A Japanese propaganda lithograph rallying for occupation of the Russian Far East.Japanese officers in Vladivostok with local commander Lieutenant-General Rozanov (1920).
The Japanese Siberian Intervention (シベリア出兵, Shiberia Shuppei) of 1918–1922 was a dispatch of Japanese military forces to the Russian Maritime Provinces, as part of a larger effort by western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The Japanese suffered 1,399 killed and another 1,717 deaths from disease.[4] Japanese military forces occupied Russian cities and towns in the province of Primorsky Krai from 1918—1922.
^"The March of the Japanese Army at Vladivostok City". 1919.
^Harries 2001, p. 127.
^General-Lieutenant G.F.Krivosheyev (1993). "Soviet Armed Forces Losses in Wars, Combat Operations Military Conflicts" (PDF). Moscow Military Publishing House. p. 46. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
^ abSpencer, TuckerWorld War I: A Student Encyclopedia. p.969.
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