petersburg. under him , japan did not join the tough sanctions imba fields and refrained from them 2014 after crimea a bdimir putin 27 times called him his friend, while negotiating the status of the kuril islands and the peace treaty with russia he left his post for health reasons in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic without having time open, the postponed tokyo olympics, his departure coincided with a new round of tension in the world with a new wave of economic crisis and with the growth of anti-russian sentiment in japan, the land of the rising sun. in the ranks of the anti-russian sanctions, her companies one after another announced their withdrawal, or, more simply, the loss of the russian market. japanese politicians started talking about a forceful solution to the problem of the kuril islands, and economists began to predict a full-scale economic and political crisis for japan this fall in this situation, killing anyhow, like a line under the whole era, where japan and russia were looking for each other's approaches. well , abba himself, even after his resignation, remained a realist in a re