Like Petals of Cherry Blossom: History of the Riga Army Office (Ouka-no-Gotoku: Rekishi no Naka ni kieta Riga Bukanshitsu) - UTU Research Portal

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Like Petals of Cherry Blossom: History of the Riga Army Office (Ouka-no-Gotoku: Rekishi no Naka ni kieta Riga Bukanshitsu)

Authors: Shingo Masunaga

Publisher: Japan Military Review

Publication year: 2017

Journal: Japan Military Review

Issue: 617

First page : 196

Last page: 205

Abstract

In July 1931, the Japanese Army established an office for its military attache to Latvia, in Riga. Ever since, until August 1940, the Riga Army office had been the centre for Japanese military intelligence activities in Northern Europe including the Baltic States.