ABSTRACT
Yeltsin’s visit to Japan and the Tokyo Declaration Boris Yeltsin visited Japan from 11 to 13 October 1993. The purpose of his visit was to accomplish the first bilateral summit in the Russo-Japanese era after the end of the Soviet-Japanese era. From a long-term perspective, we can probably consider it to have been accompanied by the fundamental changes brought by the collapse of the Cold War structure, both globally and domestically. In that sense, it should be seen as the starting point of a new period. However, as I mentioned at the end of the last chapter, it had a strong sense of continuity from the previous period. The initial opportunity was created during the Gorbachev’s time in office. The visit had originally been scheduled for an earlier date, but was cancelled-twice. There was, after all, a two-and-a-half-year interval between Gorbachev’s and Yeltsin’s bilateral summit meetings with the Japanese.
