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The Illustration of The Siberian War, N°. 16: The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschens

Japan during the Siberian Intervention

Credit: Shobido & Co

The Japanese Siberian Intervention of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Imperial Japanese Army 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.