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Japan-Russia high-level political dialogue |
Other major events |
| 1993 |
| October |
President Boris Yeltsin visits Japan |
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| November |
Opening of Japanese consulates general in Vladivostok and Khabarovsk |
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| 1994 |
| March |
Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata visits Russia |
| September |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (U.N. General Assembly) |
| November |
First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets visits Japan |
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| February |
First Trilateral Forum on North Pacific Security (Tokyo)
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| 1995 |
| March |
Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev visits Japan |
| August |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ASEAN Regional Forum, Brunei) |
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| March |
First round of negotiations on a framework for fishing operations in waters around the Northern Territories
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| April |
State Duma Speaker Ivan Rybkin visits Japan
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| 1996 |
| March |
Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda visits Russia |
| April |
Japan-Russia bilateral summit (Nuclear Safety Summit, Moscow) |
| June |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (Lyons Summit) |
| July |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ASEAN Regional Forum, Jakarta) |
| September |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (U.N. General Assembly) |
| November |
Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov visits Japan |
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| April |
Defense Agency Director General Hideo Usui visits Russia |
| June - July |
Presidential election in Russia |
| July |
A naval escort of the Maritime Self-Defense Force visits Vladivostok |
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| 1997 |
| May |
Foreign Minister Ikeda visits Russia |
| June |
First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov visits Japan
Japan-Russia bilateral summit (Denver Summit)
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ceremony to mark the return of Hong Kong to China) |
| July |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ASEAN Regional Forum, Kuala Lumpur) |
| September |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (U.N. General Assembly) |
| November |
Japan-Russia bilateral summit in Krasnoyarsk
Foreign Minister Primakov visits Japan |
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| January |
The Russian tanker Nakhodka sinks in the Sea of Japan |
| May |
Defense Minister Igor Rodionov visits Japan |
| June |
A Russian naval vessel visits Tokyo |
| October |
Federation Council Speaker Yegor Stroyev visits Japan |
| November |
Opening of Japanese consular office in Sakhalin |
| December |
Essential agreement reached in negotiations on a framework for fishing operations in waters around the Northern Territories |
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| 1998 |
| February |
Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi visits Russia |
| April |
Japan-Russia bilateral summit in Kawana |
| May |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (G8 foreign ministers' meeting, London)
Japan-Russia bilateral summit (Birmingham Summit) |
| June |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (G8 foreign ministers' meeting, London) |
| July |
Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko visits Japan
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ASEAN Regional Forum, Manila) |
| September |
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Ryutaro Hashimoto visits Russia
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (U.N. General Assembly) |
| October |
Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura visits Russia |
| November |
Prime Minister Obuchi visits Russia |
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| March |
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin dismissed; replaced by Prime Minister Kiriyenko |
| May |
Joint Staff Council Chairman Kazuya Natsukawa visits Russia |
| July |
Joint exercise by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Russian military for search and rescue operations |
| August |
Prime Minister Kiriyenko dismissed |
| September |
Primakov appointed prime minister |
| December |
Chief of Staff Anatoly Kvashnin visits Japan |
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| 1999 |
| February |
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov visits Japan |
| March |
First Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Maslyukov visits Japan |
| April |
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Hashimoto visits Russia |
| May |
Foreign Minister Komura visits Russia |
| June |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (G8 foreign ministers' meeting, Cologne)
Japan-Russia bilateral summit (Cologne Summit) |
| July |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (ASEAN Regional Forum, Singapore) |
| September |
Meeting between Prime Minister Obuchi and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Auckland)
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (U.N. General Assembly) |
| November |
Senior Foreign Policy Advisor Hashimoto visits Russia |
| December |
Japan-Russia foreign ministers' meeting (G8 foreign ministers' meeting on conflict prevention, Berlin) |
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| May |
Prime Minister Primakov dismissed; replaced by Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin
Opening of the Japan-Russia Youth Exchange Center (Obuchi-Yeltsin Center) |
| August |
Defense Agency Director General Hosei Norota visits Russia |
| October |
House of Councillors President Juro Saito visits Russia |
| December |
President Yeltsin resigns; Prime Minister Putin appointed acting president |
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| 2000 |
| February |
Foreign Minister Ivanov visits Japan |
| April |
Special Envoy of the Prime Minister Muneo Suzuki visits Russia
Japan-Russia bilateral summit (St. Petersburg) |
| June |
Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko visits Japan (for funeral of former Prime Minister Obuchi) |
| July |
Japan-Russia bilateral summit and foreign ministers' meeting (Kyushu-Okinawa Summit) |
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| May |
Putin appointed president |
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