The future of Japan cannot be based only on its partnerships with the US and NATO, as important as this partnership is for Tokyo. This future also depends on Japan's relations to its Eurasian neighbors
The recent international tour of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ...
On September 29, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of Japanese diplomats at the Residence of Japan’s Ambassador to Russia
On September 29, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with a group of Japanese diplomats at the Residence of Japan’s Ambassador to Russia.
The following issues ...
On September 13, 2022, with the assistance of the Japanese Embassy in Russia, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held another online briefing for a group of Japanese international affairs experts on topical issues of Russian foreign policy and the development of the world order against the backdrop ...
Essentially, Japan’s government looks like it obediently complies with the decisions made by its allies in the West, but it is at the same time solving strictly practical tasks without jeopardizing its own energy security
On August 10, 2022, Japan’s cabinet,...
... limits and purpose of expanding the organization’s areas of activity
The 2022 NATO Summit in Madrid can be seen as a momentous occasion not just for NATO but also for security in the Asia-Pacific. For the first time in NATO’s 73-year-long history, Japanese and South Korean leaders participated in the meeting as “Asia-Pacific partners”. For the first time, the Alliance named China a threat in their documents. However, having approached the
hic sunt dracones
(here be dragons) mark, NATO and ...
On July 19, 2022, at the Residence of the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Feodor Voitolovsky, RIAC Member, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, had a meeting with Yoshiyuki Yamada, Director of Russia Division ...
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in the vicinity of Sevastopol during an allegedly “peaceful passage.” Subsequently, the group passed through the Bay of Bengal and the Strait of Malacca, heading on to the Pacific Ocean on a training mission for patrolling between Guam and Japan; the group also participated in drills with other navies and docked in foreign ports. The mission of the British part was 28 weeks long, making it the first protracted expedition of a British aircraft carrier in the recent history of the Royal Navy....
... parties will be able to achieve the political goals for which a huge price has already been paid, both in human lives and in terms of enormous damage to the economy. The contours of the balance for global and regional players—the EU, the US, China, Japan, Iran and others are more clearly visible.
The European Union bears the most serious losses and costs. They are associated with the rupture of numerous trade and economic ties with Russia. The main challenge is the replacement of Russian oil, gas,...
For the first time, Tokyo calls Russia’s actions “aggression”
Amid the incoming waves of restrictive measures imposed against Russia, Japan’s political establishment has come forward with a number of statements that may well push the country’s bilateral relations with Russia beyond the point of no return. The current economic, financial, technological, visa and other kinds of sanctions ...
Six Russian citizens were awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan, as stated in a Government Resolution issued on Wednesday
Six Russian citizens were awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the government of Japan, as stated in a Government Resolution issued on Wednesday.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; ...