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OCR: PERSPECTIVE Songs, Spies And Ships By SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV or me, Japan has always been a dream enveloped in mysterious mist: Mount Fuji, gardens of stones, the pink veil of blossoming Sergei Khrushchev, the son sakura, ikebana-all that seems so unlike anything else. I re- of Soviet Premier Nikita S. member my first, too-brief visit to Tokyo but I would prefer not to Khrushchev and a former dwell on Japan's natural beauty, warm hospitality or its extraordinary rocket-guidance engineer, is people's industriousness. Instead, to this fairy-tale land I would like to Visiting Senior Research offer three Russian stories, memories that I turn to when I think of Associate at the Centre for Japan. Two of the tales will be new to Asia. One of them I still don't Foreign Policy Development like to think about ... of the Watson Institute, Brown University, USA A War Story: In February 1904, in the opening hours of the Russo- Japanese War, an overwhelmingly superior Japanese naval squadron trapped two Russian warships-the cruiser Varyag and the gunboat