Japan in America’s confrontational policy towards Russia at the start of Cold War 2.0 in the first quarter of the XXI century.

   In his speech during the military Victory Parade, on 9th May 2023, Russia’s President Putin openly declared that the West had once again unleashed a fully-fledged war against our country. In turn, in November of that same year, the Prime Minister of Japan — Fumio Kishida — speaking from a Japan Air Self-Defense Force airbase officially declared that for the first time since the Second World War, the Japanese see Russia as a very serious threat to their security. In this monograph the authors have analysed the consequences of the conclusion of the era of cooperation between Russia and the West after the end of the first Cold War, and have admitted that there will be no return in Russia’s relations with the US, NATO and Japan to how they were before 24th February 2022 i.e. before the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Thirty years of mainly constructive, though not without its problems, cooperation between Russia and the West has most definitively come to an end. In an evaluation of the new international situation after the start of Russia’s military action in Ukraine, Henry Kissinger spoke of the coming of a world on the brink of war between the West and Russia and of a serious disruption to strategic balance in the world. “We are on the brink of war with Russia because of problems that we have partly created ourselves, without any idea of what this will lead to and how it will all end.” Japan, which capitulated after the end of the Second World War, has today, at the start of the XXI century become completely subordinated to US strategic interests in building a new world order in the Far East. It turns out that Japan’s ruling circles are taking a very active part in containing Russia’s influence in the world as a whole and in particular the Far East.