| Summary/Abstract |
A Japanese military intelligence agency has been continuously operating globally since 1871, and Russia has been consistently a major target of it. Following the end of the intervention in 1922, the government of Japan proceeded to improve relations with the USSR, for which reason the intelligence services of the Empire monitored military and economic capacity-building measures and the foreign policy of the Soviet authorities in the Far East, refraining from subversive activities. Soviet national security agencies managed to feed the military intelligence of Japan, the central intelligence body of the Empire, with overstated information about the status of the Red Army. That is why, from 1923 to 1931, Tokyo's military planning with respect to the USSR was defensive in nature.
|