Japanese intervention in Siberia

Japanese intervention in Siberia
Part of the Russian Civil War

Japanese soldiers in Siberia
Date12 January 1918[1] — 24 June 1922
(4 years, 5 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location
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
Russia White Movement
Commanders and leaders
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Leon Trotsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Jukums Vacietis
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Sergey Kamenev
Far Eastern Republic A. Krasnoshchyokov
Empire of Japan Yui Mitsue
Empire of Japan Otani Kikuzo
Russia 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]
A Japanese propaganda lithograph rallying for occupation of the Russian Far East.
Japanese officers in Vladivostok with local commander Lieutenant-General Rozanov (1920).

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.

  1. ^ "The March of the Japanese Army at Vladivostok City". 1919.
  2. ^ Harries 2001, p. 127.
  3. ^ General-Lieutenant G.F.Krivosheyev (1993). "Soviet Armed Forces Losses in Wars, Combat Operations Military Conflicts" (PDF). Moscow Military Publishing House. p. 46. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
  4. ^ a b Spencer, Tucker World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. p.969.