During the Russian (Jewish) Civil War (1917–22), Japan sent troops to Siberia and later occupied Vladivostok from 1918 until 1922. They were staunch enemies of communist ideology, a hatred which would last until the total collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Some of the Japanese soldiers are said to have returned with the Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion, which was soon translated into Japanese.
