On October 25, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and RIAC Member Dmitry Trenin held a meeting with Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yasumasa Nagamine, which was also attended by the officials of the European Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Ministry of Japan and Japanese embassy to Moscow.
The participants discussed various aspects of Russia's foreign policy, Russian-Japanese relations, and overall situation in Northeast Asia and Asia Pacific. The Japanese side was also informed about current and future RIAC projects on Asia Pacific issues.
On March 5 at the embassy of Japan in Moscow Andrei Kortunov, RIAC General Director met with Koji Tsuruoka, Japan’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and Tikahito Harada, Japan’s ambassador to Russia.
Also present were Evsei Gurvich, head of the Economic Expert Group under the RF Government, and officials of the political and economic sections of the embassy of Japan in Moscow.
Discussions covered current state and prospects of development ...
RIAC General Director Andrei Kortunov met with officials of Japan’s Foreign Ministry on 30 October.
The meeting was attended by Deputy General Director Takeshi Hikihara of Japan’s Foreign Ministry European Affairs Bureau, Minister-Counselor Tadaatsu Mohri, chief of the Political Affairs Department, Embassy of Japan to Russia, and Embassy Second Secretary Ippei Tada.
The meeting dealt with the current situation and the outlook in Russian-Japanese relations, security and development issues in North-East Asia, and the results of the APEC’s Russia Year. Andrei Kortunov ...
On 24 September 2012, RIAC hosted a conference titled "
Russia-Japan: opportunities, threats, and prospects
". The event featured four sections:
1. Russian-Japanese political relations
2. Potential for the development of trade & economic and research & technology relations
3. Security issues in the Asia Pacific ...
On September 17, 2012 a meeting was held in Alexander House Business Center between RIAC executives and experts and a group of Japanese researchers and journalists.
The participants of the meeting were welcomed by the Council’s General Director A. Kortunov, who introduced to the guests members of the RIAC Working Group for Russian-Japanese Relations: Chief Researcher of the Institute of US and Canadian Studies of RAS, Ambassador A. Panov, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of RAS V. Kistanov, Editor-in-Chief of POLIS magazine ...