“The Japanese side removed from the national “Review of the situation in the field of international terrorism” for 2021 ... the mention of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion “Azov,” she said.
The diplomat drew attention to the fact that this list was created on the basis of the Japanese specialists themselves.
“Japanese experts apologized for the fact that this formation dared to be included in the mentioned list of terrorist organizations.
They seem to have forgotten at one moment that Azov was marked by bloody crimes in the Donbass.
Not once, not dozens of times, but many times, over many years,” the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
Official Tokyo by such an act openly showed itself to be an accomplice of neo-Nazism, Zakharova emphasized.
“Unfortunately, in the history of Japan, this is not the first time that the government of the country takes the side of inhuman regimes.
Japan has not learned the lesson from the alliance with Nazi Germany and today, following the actions of its own military in World War II, it is ready to cover its “ideological associates” in Ukraine, as Fumio Kishida’s administration emphasizes,” the diplomat said.
She also recalled that Russia, at the same time, repeatedly provided assistance to Japan when its citizens were subjected to terrorist attacks in different regions of the world.
On April 9, it became known that the Public Security Directorate under the Ministry of Justice of Japan removed the description of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion as “created by neo-Nazi organizations” from the 2021 international terrorism guide.