The Ministry explained that, since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the Japanese government has been pursuing an openly hostile policy towards Russia.

“Tokyo multiplied illegal sanctions packages, deliberately spread Russophobia among the Japanese population, and increased military activity together with the United States and other NATO member nations near Russia’s borders,” the statement highlights.

They have even carried out exercises with the use of offensive weapons, including nuclear ones, and provided aid to the Ukrainian regime, the note adds.

Faced with this panorama, Russia does not see the possibility of continuing the dialogue with the Japanese authorities for the signing of a peace treaty, a pending issue since 1945 since Japan’s defeat in the Second World War.

Tokyo maintains a territorial dispute with Moscow over the Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai islands of the Kuril archipelago, which Japan ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 after capitulating in World War II.

Russia assumed sovereignty of the islands as the legal successor of the USSR.

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