Japan Exempted from Russian Countermeasures: Russian-Japanese Partnership Reaffirmed

... from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and has also studied at University of California at Davis and Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In the evening of 7 August 2014, Tokyo was struck by a happy surprise: Japan was exempted from Russia’s countermeasures designed in response to Western sanctions. The Jiji Press –a major Japanese media with global networks– immediately reported on its headline that “日本は制裁対象外＝欧米の青果など禁輸,...