NHK: Japan to expand sanctions list against Russia

This is reported by NHK with reference to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. 

The full list of persons included in the Japanese list is not yet known.

According to the agency, it is planned to freeze the assets of 70 sanctioned individuals and impose additional export sanctions on another 90 Russian organizations.

Earlier, a member of the upper house of the Japanese parliament, Muneo Suzuki, expressed the opinion that the temperature of relations between Japan and Russia, which have been created for decades, "has dropped to zero."

In addition, the Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet, Hirokazu Matsuno, said that Japan would cooperate with the G7 countries to increase pressure on Russia in order to cut off ways to circumvent sanctions.