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Refugees, immigrants and exiles are international human movements arising from religious, political and economic reasons and are contemporary issues. Japan was faced with serious refugee problems for the first time about 100 years ago, when, in the turmoil of the Russian revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War, about one million displaced people from Russia were scattered all over the world and a part of them flowed into Japan located at the edge of the Far East.
This paper is an attempt to clarify the change of the Japanese government’s policy on the issue of the Russian refugees over the 1917–1925 period based on the communication exchanged between overseas diplomatic missions and the Foreign Ministry of Japan. The roles of overseas foreign missions as well as the situations in the country producing refugees and the countries or regions where the displaced people were temporarily staying are also examined.
