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THE MYSTIFYING TITLE is merely a statement that everything is possible in international relations even if recently a full-scale cooperation between Russia and Japan looked unreal.Today, they are pushed aside by the U.S. and rapidly developing China and play only the second fiddle in the APR political context. Their equally impressive potentials and images, as well as the cruel international realities of the early twenty-first century, force the two powers which figured prominently in the postwar history of Asia to seek ways to move closer together. Confronted with new geopolitical challenges and also threats not far from home, Russia and Japan are becoming, for objective reasons, natural strategic partners in East Asia.
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