 The agreement was registered in "League of Nations Treaty Series" on May 20, 1925.Following the defeat of the Russian Empire in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, cooperative relations between Russia and Japan were gradually restored via four sets of treaties signed between 1907 and 1916.However, the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, followed by the Bolshevik Revolution, followed by the Japanese Siberian Intervention created a strong distrust between Japan and the newly founded Soviet Union.