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Japan did not instigate hostilities with Russia during World War II. Russia was agreed to attack Japan during the Tehran Conference in 1945 and did so on August 9, 1945, by invading Manchuria.

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They needed a warm water port and thought it would be a "quick victory" to regain respect; however in the end Russia was defeated and very humiliated.

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Russian expansion eastward and their accompanying need for an ice-free naval port. Japan didn't want the Russians so close, and contested their eastward expansion...with war.

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The Russian navys need to have an ice-free port in the Pacific region. This expansion clashed with Japanese needs. So they fought a war over it.

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The US and Soviets were allies. If we were attacked they would help us and vice versa.

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