Russia bans entry to country for 9 Japanese citizens, including Foreign Ministry head and ambassador to Ukraine

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the aggressor state of russia announced a ban on entry to the country for 9 Japanese citizens in response to the sanctions of the Japanese government.

This was reported by NHK.

Thus, the russian federation has imposed an indefinite ban on entry to nine Japanese citizens, including Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya. In addition, the list includes the Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Masashi Nakagome, the former Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Kuninori Matsuda and senior officials of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. In the private sector, the presidents of the engineering giant INI and Isuzu Motors.

The russian Foreign Ministry announced that the decision was made as part of countermeasures in response to the sanctions of the Japanese government due to russia's full-scale war in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, russia has already banned the entry of 460 Japanese citizens. Among them are Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and other lawmakers and businessmen.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaking about the quarrel between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump, noted that the country "has no intention of taking sides," but added that Japan will do everything possible to prevent the deepening of differences between the US and Ukraine.