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Kishida’s fatal mistake has put entire Japan at severe risk

TFIGLOBAL News Desk by TFIGLOBAL News Desk
May 21, 2022
in China, Geopolitics, Japan
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Japan’s entire history after the Second World War has rested on avoiding unnecessary conflicts and devastating wars. The country has had enough after the two nuclear bombings during the World War. Till now, it has done a pretty good job at avoiding wars. However, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida may just have committed a fatal mistake by angering Russia and putting the entire country at risk.

Till now, Russia has maintained silence on the issue of the Kuril Islands dispute with Japan. However, Tokyo has now rubbed it the wrong way and suddenly Russia seems to be taking a tough stand on the issue.

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Nikolay Nozdrev, director in charge of Japan and other Asian countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry said, “No special treatment or simplified procedures will be applied”.

Deteriorating relations

In fact, Russia-Japan ties have been going south for quite some time now. In March, Russia said that it would suspend bilateral negotiations with Japan, including on the Kuril Islands dispute, to explore a peace treaty with the Japanese.

Moscow also halted a visa-free program that allowed former Japanese residents to periodically visit the islands. Anyhow, a scheme to allow visa-free travel to ancestral tombs was kept intact.

However, this one last show of possible peace between Tokyo and Moscow too seems to be vanishing now. Nozdrev said that Russia cannot negotiate with a country that “overtly poses a threat to our country.”

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Kishida’s sabre-rattling puts Japan at a severe threat

Japan seems to be in a tough spot given its souring relationship with Russia.

On Russia’s part, the Kuril Islands was never at the top of the priority list. It was more or less fixated on the Western front and was more interested in securing its Western border. Kuril Islands dispute remained unresolved but it was never as if the dispute would get blown out of proportion and lead to actual fighting.

Abe meets Putin, agrees to 'new approach' in bid to resolve festering territorial dispute | The Japan Times
(Source: Japan Times)

And once Shinzo Abe came to power, Moscow and Tokyo actually started showing signs of collaboration in strategic areas. The two countries seemed well on course to finalise a peace deal that would have proved beneficial for both sides.

However, when Fumio Kishida decided to join the US and the EU in sanctioning Russia, Putin got provoked. He decided to end all efforts at reaching a peace treaty with the Japanese and reignited the Kuril Islands dispute.

Making the wrong choice

On his part, Kishida has really made the wrong choice. He had the option of staying neutral during the war despite American pressure. He could have said that Japan is the only country in the world to get nuked twice and now it won’t be taking sides in a war of the scale being waged in Ukraine. This way it would have managed to avoid irking Moscow. In fact, India too decided to stay neutral during the ongoing war and actually avoided any adverse consequences.

Read more: Japan is being hijacked by China dove cowards. Kishida must be sacked now

Now, it may already be too late for Japan. Russia is clearly looking to make a major issue out of the Kuril Islands dispute and is perceiving Japan as a threat. And when Russia starts describing someone as a threat, it actually takes some big steps to neutralise the threat regardless of the economic and political consequences involved.

For Tokyo, angering Japan could now turn out to be a fatal mistake. It is already having a tough time checking Chinese belligerence at the Senkaku Islands and now it could face a new security threat near the Senkaku Islands too. Kishida’s mistake could thus turn out to be a fatal one for Tokyo.

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