Tokyo’s policy in recent years has destroyed the positive groundwork in Russian-Japanese relations, reducing bilateral ties to an “ice age,” Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev said Monday.
“We are witnessing a decline unprecedented in the entire post-war era, if I may call it that, a deep ‘ice age’ in bilateral relations,” he said.
“The positive groundwork accumulated over the past decades “has been almost completely destroyed” by Tokyo.
“Tokyo joining “the anti-Russian line of the collective West in the context of the Ukrainian crisis led to current stage,” he said.
The ambassador has laid out the essential prerequisites for restoring state-to-state contacts.
He added that Tokyo is renouncing its current hostile orientation specifically, ceasing its revisionist policies and retreating from its course toward remilitarisation.
