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Japan considers maintaining dialogue with Russia important despite sanctions
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said dialogue with Russia should continue after Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was interested in cooperation with Tokyo. Kihara said the two countries continued to have serious differences and that Japan held Russia responsible for the current disputes.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said contacts with Russia should be maintained after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was interested in cooperating with Tokyo.
Kihara said the Japanese government had taken note of Putin’s recent positive remarks about relations between the two countries. The Japanese official said maintaining dialogue with Russia was important, while noting that serious differences remained on various issues.
Kihara said the Japanese government’s position that Russia was responsible for the current bilateral disputes remained unchanged.
Putin’s messages to Tokyo
In a speech at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club the previous day, Putin said Russia wanted to build ties with Japan based on good-neighborly relations. The Russian leader said the economy, environmental protection and scientific research were areas of shared interest for the two countries.
Putin argued that Moscow’s approach to Japan had not changed, while the change had occurred in Tokyo’s position. Putin said Japan had imposed sanctions on Russia and that some senior Japanese officials had made harsh statements.
Putin also said Moscow was concerned about the policy of forming military and political blocs in the region, as well as Japan’s plans to increase its military capabilities.
Sanctions and the Kuril Islands dispute
Japan, together with the G7 countries, has imposed economic sanctions on Russia since the Russia-Ukraine war began in February 2022.
One of the main disputes between the two countries concerns sovereignty over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet Union took control of the Kuril Islands, which stretch between the Kamchatka Peninsula and Japan’s Hokkaido Island, in 1945, toward the end of World War II.
The dispute over the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories, remains one of the obstacles to signing a peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
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