Russian Revolution
After the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War, about 2,000,000 Russian refugees who did not accept the Bolshevik rule entered mostly the United States and Europe. Some of them settled in the Home Islands of Japan. Traditionally these refugees have been known as White Russians, with the corresponding Japanese term being Hakkei-Roshiajin, a term which been applied to all former residents of the former Russian Empire.
Initially the majority of Russians lived in Tokyo and Yokohama. After the Great KantÅ earthquake of 1923 a significant number of them moved to Kobe.
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