In June last year, Moscow unilaterally announced a suspension of the Japan-Russia agreement on Japanese fishing operations around the disputed islands.
During a meeting with Japanese Ambassador to Moscow Toyohisa Kozuki, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko drew his attention to Tokyos unfriendly steps toward Moscow, including the announced sanctions, and urged him to refrain from anti-Russian measures leading to the degradation of bilateral relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday
Japanese Ambassador to Russia Toyohisa Kozuki pointed out that Japan’s new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was a member of the Hiroshima prefecture parliament and he had actively worked on issues of disarmament
According to Japan’s Ambassador to Russia Toyohisa Kozuki, Japanese top diplomat Toshimitsu Motegi invited Sergey Lavrov to Japan during the latest meeting in New York