Japan to revoke Russia's most favored nation status over Ukraine

I hope this kind of thing works. I want to see Putin homeless.

Squeeze, baby! Squeeeeeeezzzzee!

Anything to put Putin back in his matryoshka from hell.

Guess I’ll have to switch to Japanese vodka! Russia is like the stereotypical aggressive fat alcoholic who would be in the hospital anyway. Putin just sped up the process.

over 20% of Japanese companies opearing in Russia are still there, including Japan Tobacco. Is that "severe sanctions"?

So 80% have left Russia and one that you keep mentioning that has stayed (Japan Tobacco) is a product known to cause cancer and kill the user. Perhaps there is strategy in leaving that company there?

Japan continues to be reliant on Russian resources-

Japan has another resource endowed friend close by in Australia who can supply everything Russia does but oil it can get from the US, Saudi's or even Iran.

whilst at the same time imposing sanctions and raising tariffs and illegally seizing privately owned Russian assets .

Anything seized from the Russians is done within the appropriate laws and there is nothing illegal about it. Russian citizens are citizens of a nation committing crimes and those in power, (billionaires included) are being held to account. Their money and assets will not be free to finance the states terror on a free sovereign nation. Too bad for them they didnt use their money to get other citizenship and renounce Russian citizenship before the invasion.

The status removal would mean higher tariffs on Russian products. Consumers in Japan would see Russian crabs, salmon and other seafood items sold at higher prices.

Yes, I think pretty much everyone other than Putin wishes Putin hadn't decided to start a war to stoke his ego.

Alaska can replace pretty much everything Russia sells to Japan. Caught off islands they stole from Japan after they surrendered....lol.

Don’t be stupid Japan!

Don’t follow this stupid American government!!

If you make Russia angry, prices of gaz will up and it will be the civilians who will suffer.

We know now that American are training Ukrainian troops since 8 year by CIA.

Don’t be foolish, stop to be America’s dog!!!

The status removal would mean higher tariffs on Russian products. Consumers in Japan would see Russian crabs, salmon and other seafood items sold at higher prices.

Which is a shame, quite a bit of the seafood I order is Russian in origin if it isn't available domestically, but not remotely surprised I will have to pay a premium for a while. I don't think anybody thought prices were not going to be affected across the board.

During the cold war, the doctrine was national security prevails over trade, and it WORKED both economically and militarily. Western corporates benefitted, without sacrificing national security.

Since normalisation with authoritarian, totalitarian regimes, western ccorporates continue to benefit, but at supposedly manageable national security sacrifices. Ukraine well and truly debunked the manageability of national security risk, not to mention supply chain risk from China, and energy risks from non-allied OPEC members.

There's no shortage of example of sacrificing western national security for corporates greed, eg Germany. Iran, China, Russia are national security problems with roots in German corporate greed. Londongrad, the money laundering capital for oligarchs, Singapore the money laundering capital for CCP crooks.

Is the western sphere supposed to keep our heads in the sands and diminish our national security to keep the like of Siemens, VW, Uniqlo & JP Morgan profitable?

How WILL Japan survive without caviar?

Japan's sanctions are mostly irrelevant because the country has so little trade with Russia.

No wonder I got downvoted. What I meant to say was:

Oil is far more important than crabs. Let's see how the west and the honorable west survives WITHOUT oil and gas.

Oil is far more important than crabs. Let's see how the west and the honorable west survives with oil and gas.

And the Russians will ban the Japanese on Kurile islands like cold war days!

Japan will strip Russia of its "most favored nation" status to punish Moscow for its aggression in Ukraine, following in the footsteps of the United States and European nations

What about Japanese foreign policy?

Too complicated?

My condolences

Japanese Government should be very careful in this Russia bullying game.

Fact is Russia has done nothing directly harming Japan since after waging a war with Ukraine. Plus Ukraine is thousands miles away from Japan. Same time Japan had already imposed numerous one way sanctions (SWIFT, auto-industry, illegally seizing assets, now most favored nations ban, etc.) on to Russia, which mostly common Russian people will start to suffer from.

Russia now has all the liberty to impose counter-sanctions on Japan which would make not less severe blow to Japanese ordinary people when they would find theirs electricity bills sky-rocketing to the moon, if not blackouts in some areas.

Japan continues to be reliant on Russian resources- whilst at the same time imposing sanctions and raising tariffs and illegally seizing privately owned Russian assets .

It's a recipe for disaster for Japan concerning its relationship with Russia .

Japan may not approve of the Ukraine crisis but regional security and providing for It's own citizens and residents should be top priority.

Japan has entered a battle it can't possibly win .

Japan unfortunately has been bamboozled into joining this fight only to inevitably lose as history repeats itself.