Japanese intervention in Siberia
| Japanese intervention in Siberia | |||||||||
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| Part of the Russian Civil War | |||||||||
Japanese soldiers in Siberia | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Russian SFSR Far Eastern Republic |
Empire of Japan White movement | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Leon Trotsky Jukums Vacietis Sergey Kamenev A. Krasnoshchyokov |
Yui Mitsue Otani Kikuzo Grigory Semyonov | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 600,000 (peak) | 70,000 (total) | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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7,791 casualties (1922 only)
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3,116 death (total)
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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. Japanese military forces occupied Russian cities (largest city Vladivostok) and towns in the province of Primorsky Krai between 1918 and 1922.