APSEC 2016 Conference Proceedings

Abstract

This article sheds light on the pre-war military relations between the Baltic States andJapan throughout 1930s. At first, Hobbesian sense of ‘fears’ against Communismrealized the bilateral and trilateral cooperation in military intelligence sector. Themutual respects ever since the Russo-Japanese War connected the two distant entities.Although its main task, toppling the Soviet regimes in Georgia and Ukraine, wasnever succeeded, there were some notable achievements and it should be consideredas one of the most successful Japanese intelligence activities in the pre-war period.However, this fruitful relationship suddenly came to an end by the Soviet invasion ofthe Baltic States in June 1940.</p