In light of the addition of the republics of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson areas to the list of Russian organisations following the announcement of the referendum results, Japan will increase the list of individual sanctions against Russia.
In a press conference held in Tokyo today, Seiji Kihara, the deputy secretary-general of the Japanese Cabinet, announced that the government had decided to impose new, additional sanctions against Russia, which would be represented by the freezing of the assets of representatives of these four regions and some Russian officials.
It is interesting that the situation in the Ukraine led to the Japanese government imposing numerous different sets of sanctions against Russia.
More than 200 Russian and Belarusian businesses and institutions, as well as more than 700 individuals from Russia, Belarus, the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, were all subject to these sanctions.
The assets and cash of significant Russian banks and businesses were frozen as part of the sanctions.
About 500 items, including semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, military products, including weapons, software, oil and gas refining equipment, trucks and dump trucks, bulldozers and railway locomotives, as well as machine tools and other electrical equipment used in industry, have been banned from export to Russia by Japan.
Russia is now subject to more individual sanctions from Japan.
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