Корчевский А.В.

The article analyses the most important organization forms of the Japanese inbound tourism in the Soviet Far East at 1960s – 1980s. There are “ships of friendship”, business tourism, recreation of Japanese children in the Soviet summer camps etc. The author demonstrated the main difficulties of development of inbound tourism: the Cold War, bureaucracy, low quality of soviet-made tours. He draws a conclusion, that tourism and cultural relationships with Japan was only the instrument for the USSR economy and diplomacy.

The article analyses the problems of the Soviet-Japanese economic collaboration in 1964 – 1985. The author demonstrated the main difficulties of economical relations between the USSR and Japan, and shows their reasons. He draws a conclusion, that the difference between the planned economy and the market economy was a dominant factor of discord in this collaboration.