As the specialist emphasized, Japan joined the anti-Russian coalition.
“We see the imposed sanctions plus attempts to use the topic of the so-called northern territories in order to score political points within the country,” the expert explained.
According to Danyuk, the current actions of the Japanese leadership can be regarded as hostile.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, said that Japan had become an unfriendly country for Russia.
Commenting on Japan's position on the ownership of the South Kuriles, he noted that all four islands are an inalienable territory of Russia.
On April 22, it became known that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in the report on diplomacy "Blue Book" for 2022 for the first time in 19 years designated the South Kuriles as "occupied" territories.