The article is devoted to the diplomatic activities of the first Ambassador of Japan to the USSR, Tanaka Tokichi. A short biography of a Japanese diplomat is given. The circumstances of Tanaka's appointment to the embassy in Moscow are described after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USSR and Japan in 1925 and the main stages of his activity in 1925–1930.

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Kuznetsov S.I. Tanaka Tokichi and Soviet-Japanese Relations in the Second Half of the 1920s. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2018, vol. 24, pp. 73-83. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2018.24.73 (in Russian)

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https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2018.24.73

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