1. Anikina T (2005) Rossiysko-yaponskie otnosheniya: perspektivy progressa (The Russian-Japanese relations: prospects for progress). Analiticheskie zapiski (Policy Paper) MGIMO 3(5) (in Russian)
2. Biersteker TJ, Weber C (eds) (1996) State sovereignty as social construct. Cambridge University Press
3. Chugrov SV (2005) Russia and Japan: a failed breakthrough. Russ Glob Aff 3(1) (in Russian)
4. Edamura S (2000) A Japanese view of Japanese-Russian relations. In: Rozman G (ed) Japan and Russia: the tortuous path to normalization 1949–1999. St Martin’s Press, New York
5. Erhan S (2006) Democracy without competition in Japan: opposition in a one-party dominant state. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge