On the specifics of Japan’s humanitarian cooperation with Asia-Pacific countries and Russia in 2024

Over the past five years humanitarian ties between Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries have shown a rapid forced “cooling” due to numerous local and global restrictions during the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020–2021, and a gradual recovery in the post-COVID era. Against the backdrop of the...

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Main Author: Kazakov O.I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia (ICCA RAS) 2025-03-01
Series:Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика
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Online Access:http://eastasiajournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/ea_2025_1_78-95.pdf
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Summary:Over the past five years humanitarian ties between Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries have shown a rapid forced “cooling” due to numerous local and global restrictions during the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020–2021, and a gradual recovery in the post-COVID era. Against the backdrop of the recovery of countries after the pandemic, other constraints have emerged, primarily of a military and political nature, which “freeze” the further development of humanitarian ties. Since February 24, 2022, such a constraint in Russian-Japanese relations has been Russia's special military operation, which led to a global split between supporters and opponents of Ukraine. Nevertheless, Japan strives to establish and develop relations with the Asia-Pacific countries, which resulted, in particular, in a new record of foreign tourists visiting Japan in 2024. The situation in Russian-Japanese relations has seriously worsened, due to the actual development of sanctions and information war between the two countries. However, humanitarian ties between Russia and Japan have not ceased yet.
ISSN:2686-7702