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What conspiracy are you talking about? A Neutrality Pact is for mutual preservation. I believe it served the Japanese more than for the Soviets. The Pact actually had a 5-year life and almost immediately after its signing, Germany attacked Russia and Japan teamed up with Germany. It was the Russian who revoked the Pact, one year before its natural expiry, stating more or less the reason above. Why would the Japanese want to go northwards? It is just land and large tracts of land need a lot of soldiers to hold territory, something that the Japanese wanted to avoid. Their focus was to hold on to China, with soldiers, and not be diverted. Going southwards was inevitable because the US couldn't give them what they wanted.
siberia was known as a treasure trove since the late 1800s. if i not mistaken, ten of thousands japanese troops went into siberia during the russia civil was between the red and the white. The japanese occupy the all the far east ports till 1922 before withdrawing. So it should not hard for the japanese to conduct survey in the region. Was oil discover in siberia then, i dont know but i wont be surprise oil was already discover in early 1900s.