Russia Urges Japan to Abandon Accelerated Remilitarization

Cointime update: Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on November 11 that Japan should learn from history, abandon its accelerated remilitarization, and stop trying to whitewash the crimes of Japanese militarism during World War II. Zakharova said the postwar international order faces a severe test, accusing Tokyo of policies that revise the war’s outcomes and of official visits to Yasukuni Shrine that challenge the Tokyo Trial verdicts. Russia will continue publishing evidence of Japanese wartime crimes, she said.