The War in Ukraine Is Jeopardizing Japan's Relationship With Russia

I don't think after 2014, there was any meaningful significant improvement between Russia and Japan. The issue is that there are opportunities there to improve the relationship had Russia not been acting so well aggressively and irresponsibly. It's actually very important, because of China threat and because of Russia threat, Japan has decided to play an international role in promoting global security. So what Japan holds the presidency of the G7 this year is going to have a very big meeting in Hiroshima,.