Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova told a regular briefing on the
20th that Japan has for decades refused to acknowledge the outcome of World War
II and called on Tokyo to fully accept the war’s result and stop whitewashing
its wartime aggression. She said Japan has not publicly admitted its invasions
in the Asia‑Pacific, has not sincerely apologized to victimized neighbors, has
failed to uphold its constitution’s peace clause, and is pursuing a path of
remilitarization. Zakharova cited Prime Minister Takaichi’s remarks at the
national war‑dead memorial, government offerings to Yasukuni Shrine, and visits
by the defense minister and other officials to the shrine as evidence of that
trend.
