Japan’s government says Russian oil and LNG remain vital to its energy security despite new U.S. sanctions and political pressure to cut ties.

Japan's government on Tuesday denied a media report that it had rebuffed a European Union request to join plans to use frozen Russian state assets to fund Ukraine. "It's completely false," Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura told reporters,

Wu Hailong tells forum that Tokyo ‘has never truly reflected on or repented its crimes of aggression’ during World War II.