Japanese intervention in Siberia

Japanese intervention in Siberia
Part of the Russian Civil War
Japanese soldiers in Siberia
Date 12 January 1918[1] — 24 June 1922 (4 years, 5 months, 1 week and 5 days) Location Former Russian Empire Result Soviet political victory Japanese military victory Japanese withdraw from most occupied territories following internal political pressure[2] Japan occupies northern Sakhalin until 1925
Belligerents
Russian SFSR  Far Eastern Republic	Empire of Japan White Movement
Commanders and leaders
Leon Trotsky Jukums Vacietis Sergey Kamenev A. Krasnoshchyokov	Yui Mitsue Otani Kikuzo Grigory Semyonov
Strength
600,000 (peak)	70,000 (total)
Casualties and losses
7,791 (1922 only) 698 killed or missing in action 2,189 died of disease 1,421 wounded 3,482 sick and frostbitten[3]	3,116 (total) 1,399 killed 1,717 died of disease[4]

The Japanese Siberian Intervention (シベリア出兵, Shiberia Shuppei) of 1918–1922 was a dispatch of Japanese military forces 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. The Japanese suffered 1,399 killed and another 1,717 deaths from disease.^[4] Japanese military forces occupied Russian cities (largest city Vladivostok) and towns in the province of Primorsky Krai between 1918 and 1922.