Japanese Foreign Ministry declined to answer the question of participation in the Victory Parade in Moscow

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi did not answer the question about the participation of his country's representatives in the Victory Parade in Moscow. He stated that he would not like to discuss this topic.

The Japanese Foreign Minister gave such an answer to the question of one of the journalists who were invited today to the next press conference of the Foreign Ministry of the Land of the Rising Sun.

The journalist asked Motegi if Tokyo would give a positive response to the invitation of a colleague from the Russian Foreign Ministry to attend the celebrations in Moscow on June 24. It was about the telephone talks held the day before by the heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Russia and Japan.

The head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry replied that the conversation with Sergey Lavrov was devoted to the fight against COVID-19, the economic cooperation of the two countries, the signing of a peace treaty and other issues. The minister is ready to discuss all this with reporters. And the topic of the upcoming parade is not one of the topics that he intends to speak with the press:

I would like to refrain from answering questions related to other topics.

Shortly before this, Tokyo found out through diplomatic channels the details of the ceremonies in Moscow dedicated to the Victory Day.

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[Mavrikiy]

Japanese Foreign Ministry declined to answer the question of participation in the Victory Parade in Moscow

No, without Japan, a parade, not a parade. What should they throw their flags at the mausoleum?

[Insurgent]

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi did not answer the question about the participation of his country's representatives in the Victory Parade in Moscow. He stated that he would not like to discuss this topic..

Do not push them ...

It is already extremely bitter and uncomfortable for them to realize that they are defeated, and the winner in no way wants to talk about territorial concessions on their part ...

[Thunderbolt]

[quote = Insurgent]
Do not push them ...

They and so, it is extremely bitter and not comfortable to realize that they are defeated, ................................... ............................................ Hare to know that they are defeated .Life level compared with the pan-European.

[mvg]

You are the standard of living of the “vanquished,” compare with yours in LDNR. And then gloat. As well as technical and economic development, social programs, the average age of life, education ... Still funny?

[Insurgent]

Quote: mvg

You are the standard of living of the “vanquished,” compare with yours in LDNR. And then gloat. As well as technical and economic development, social programs, the average age of life, education ... Still funny?

Actually, if you do not understand that the "LPNR" is a splinter from the "prosperous Outskirts", which brought the region to such a state, then what can we talk about with you?

[mvg]

this is a splinter from the "prosperous Outskirts"

Since 2014, you have been steering there as you want, given that the DPR was the richest and most prosperous region of Ukraine. Have you begun to live much better? Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel? Or go in the opposite direction?
PS: But the “conquered”, while the conquered by no means the USSR, do not bother about living standards, he is quite happy with them. What a bad “outskirts”, so brought the region that for 6 years can’t be restored ... maybe yours and ours from above, who don’t want to restore?

[Insurgent]

Quote: mvg

maybe yours and ours from above who don’t want to restore?

Or maybe it is not time, during the war, to restore what can be instantly destroyed?

As an example - Gorlovka Stirol, the largest chemical enterprise in Europe ...

[Svarog]

Great Japanese photo

[Insurgent]

Quote: Svarog

Great Japanese photo

Captured in a pose of crouching worship . But at the same time imagining that before Russia (the assignee of the USSR), they did not capitulate ...

And the whole point is that in front of the United States they are fumbling even more, almost unbending ...

What should they throw their flags at the mausoleum?

Quote: Sea Cat

They have already abandoned them. To the White House. In Washington.

[Thunderbolt]

Well, we are Russian, okay, but you ...,

[Insurgent]

Quote: Thunderbolt

Well, we are Russian, okay, but you ...

Thunderbolt, of the two of us, it's still worth seeing WHO is more Russian. And the matter is not only in the place of birth and nationality ...

[Catfish]

What should they throw their flags at the mausoleum?

They have already abandoned them. To the White House. In Washington.

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Sea Cat

They have already abandoned them. To the White House. In Washington.

Tell the date of throwing

[Catfish]

You’ll find it yourself, if it’s locked, you are our witty.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Japanese Foreign Ministry declined to answer the question of participation in the Victory Parade in Moscow

No, without Japan, a parade, not a parade. What should they throw their flags at the mausoleum?

No, they have to make seppuku, well, hara-kiri means. Each should have a best friend, who, if the performer’s hand trembles, strikes with a whale, cuts off his head. Let’s better do it in advance at home, there’s nothing to get our guts dirty

[AU Ivanov.]

Why do we need the losers at the Victory Parade? This is a celebration of the winners.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

Why do we need the losers at the Victory Parade?

Well, at least the Japanese did not take part in the Second World War.

[AU Ivanov.]

The Japanese were allies of Hitler, one of the Axis countries. Because of them, we kept a decent amount of troops in the Far East. Let's just say: they participated in the Great Patriotic War indirectly.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

Because of them, we kept a decent amount of troops in the Far East.

And how many times the commander of the Far Eastern Front, General Iosif Apanasenko, sent "Siberian divisions" near Moscow in 1941, and so on twice. If the Japanese wanted to attack, they would attack, and who knows what the outcome of the war would be. Many of my family were sent to these "Siberian divisions" and not all returned home to Transbaikalia.

[AU Ivanov.]

Apanasenko, instead of departing, formed new divisions. Which, perhaps, could turn the tide in the west of the country. But they were forced to stand in the east.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: AS Ivanov.

But they were forced to stand in the east.

They stood, and no matter how Japan treated us, and the Soviet troops there would have stood anyway, just like our troops stood on the border with Afghanistan and Iran.

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: tihonmarine

Quote: AS Ivanov.

Why do we need the losers at the Victory Parade?

Well, at least the Japanese did not take part in the Second World War.

So what? Guinea did not participate either, invite?

[Thunderbolt]

Why do we need the losers at the Victory Parade? This is a celebration of the winners.But it is necessary to legitimize the anti-comonitic breakthrough of ninety 1 years ..... Hop, hop and became a counter-marshal with an army, not commanding an army for a minute. The boot did not smell a single second ---- We were losing Hungary, you hee hee , and my battalion commander told me that his army br. front-line subordination covered the front in Hungary. That's how they kept it! Years have passed, detente, rearrangement ----- now the Reinforced NATO wings stand against the weakened regiments of the Russian Air Force, but in every lively topic these "marshals" appear, a persistent feeling that they do not care what to comment on, just to shrug it off without going into the landscape The boys either do not represent the massive rise of the NATO Air Force or are stupid by the propaganda.

[The leader of the Redskins]

Predictable. Again, proud loneliness will be "diluted" with third-rate allies ... I think, due to the political situation and the pandemic, none of the representatives of important countries will be present.

[Kuroneko]

Quote: Leader of the Redskins

I think in connection with the political situation and the pandemic, none of the representatives of powerful countries will be present.

Do we need it? Especially when all the allies in recent years have been feverishly rewriting history and textbooks.
Just interested.

[The leader of the Redskins]

And why do I and not Lavrov and Zakharova? After all, our invite. Either Trampushka, then Macaron, then the Japanese ...

[Piramidon]

Quote: Leader of the Redskins

Predictable. Again, proud loneliness will be "diluted" with third-rate allies ... I think, due to the political situation and the pandemic, none of the representatives of important countries will be present.

Yes, and do not care. Let no one come at all. I'm not upset at all. This is OUR holiday, and the parade is just one of its attributes.

[Svarog]

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi did not answer the question about the participation of his country's representatives in the Victory Parade in Moscow

As prisoners of war, if only

[Kuroneko]

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi did not answer the question about the participation of his country's representatives in the Victory Parade in Moscow. He stated that he would not like to discuss this topic.

In general, given the Japanese mentality (and I dare to consider myself far from an expert, but at least more or less versed in this matter - well, I have a hobby that is connected just with Japan), in plain Russian this means "We got a spit in the face, but in order not to wipe it off, we will pretend that it never happened."

[Kuroneko]

Quote: Svarog

As prisoners of war, if only

By the way, there is an awesome illustrated diary of one of the Japanese soldiers of the Kwantung army, who was captured by the Soviet Union. The thing, in principle, is among those who are in the subject, well-known, but who have not yet - very good. recommend. The guy definitely had a talent for drawing. And his comments on the drawings are devoid of any malice.
https://visualhistory.livejournal.com/279848.html
For seed:

[Paranoid50]

Quote: Kuroneko

A thing, in principle, among those in the subject, known,

Yes, this nihondzin has very funny sketches from life.

[tarabar]

It looks strange invitation to the Victory Parade, the country that lost the war, and besides, there is still no peace treaty with it. And for the Japanese it’s not comme il faut, I guess.

[Kuroneko]

Sorry, I missed. I wanted to answer you about the "weirdness of the invitation". See my comment just above.
In general, everything is fair. Has Abe already graciously allowed the Russians to "live" in the Kuril Islands without eviction? Already, apparently anticipating the transfer of the islands? Disgusting? Disgusting, and even what (not talking about what happened in Vladivostok at the annual festival of Japanese cinema). Finally, they also received something quite caustic and offending "proud samurai honor" in return. =) Simple notes of protest to them. It's just purely Russian jerking the answer went.

[tarabar]

I agree with you, the samurai has gone wrong now, chopped up somehow and began to look a lot like a merchant.

[aszzz888]

And the topic of the upcoming parade is not one of the topics that he intends to speak with the press:

I would like to refrain from answering questions related to other topics.

All according to the Ipen manual.

[knn54]

They asked the patient about health.

[Zanika]

Why are they needed here "samurai" .. So for show they invited ..
It would be nice if the regiments that smashed the Kwantung army passed by !!! And it was announced all over the country! Stop hiding already .. A brilliant operation was ..

[Gardamir]

Maybe someone does not like the word "victory", but it's true. What does the victory of our ancestors have to do with it? The union fought against the Japanese, so why invite them? I understand the Mongols, the Chinese, the former republics of the Union. The rest must be looked at. Whom does the Kremlin want to invite the Japanese to? Really winners. The very fact of inviting the Japanese is an insult to the memory of veterans.

[tihonmarine]

Quote: Gardamir

As whom does the Kremlin want to invite the Japanese? Really winners.

As a country that did not conduct military operations against the USSR from 22.06.1941/09.05.1945/XNUMX to XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX.

[tihonmarine]

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi did not answer the question about the participation of his country's representatives in the Victory Parade in Moscow. He stated that he would not like to discuss this topic.

These are the same words that Lavrov must answer to the Japanese, on their statement about the ownership of the Kuril Islands.

[BARKAS]

Let them come and look at the parade at the Kuril Islands or Sakhalin.

[Klingon]

why do they even need them at the victory parade, from the Axis alliance?
Is that in order to break the samurai sword over the head of the Prime Minister of Japan as a shameful gesture

[rotmistr60]

I would like to refrain from answering questions related to other topics.

So it is understandable. Having received in the teeth in 1945, having lost the Kwantung army and the occupied territories, stand on Red Square with a tortured smile on his broad face? And were they invited to the Parade? This journalist probably decided to touch the Japanese and put him in a not-so-comfortable position.

[ZVS]

The Japanese can understand how they will celebrate their total beating and humiliation? And also the American occupation of their islands for 75 years.

[Ros 56]

Let them go through the woods, find with whom to discuss the Victory Parade. Well zhurnoshlyuhi, well, clowns, no words, some thoughts and those are abnormal.

[Dysindich]

Quote: Gardamir

Maybe someone does not like the word "victory", but it's true. What does the victory of our ancestors have to do with it? The union fought against the Japanese, so why invite them? I understand the Mongols, the Chinese, the former republics of the Union. The rest must be looked at. Whom does the Kremlin want to invite the Japanese to? Really winners. The very fact of inviting the Japanese is an insult to the memory of veterans.

Well, don’t tell me ... Enlightened Europeans on the day of the beginning of the war invite the party that attacked them ... This is - I understand, an insult ... And in this case - an easy reminder to let the place know ...

[sergo1914]

Why is cross-eyed not on his knees? What is written in the protocol?

[NordUral]

Are "black" humorists in the Russian Foreign Ministry?

[Roman123567]

It would be foolish to celebrate a victory over oneself ..

[Pvi1206]

for him this is a humiliation ... we will sympathize ...

[Raven 95]

The Japanese should not look north (all the same, no kunashira-shikotan will break off for them in any case), but south. China props them up from the south, and Korea has not forgotten anything and, on occasion, will remember everything.

[kriten]

It’s good to drive out the Japanese and representatives of the EU countries before the parade in a prisoner of war column ...

[iouris]

"I answered evasively." "In what sense?" "I mean, sent ..."

[LeonidL]

That sadness will be if Japan does not arrive! How to survive this?

[Thunderbolt]

What nonsense, what does he propose to celebrate, a hundred burned in a fire? Nirasima? Nagasaki? The offensive of the Red Army or the strategic bombing of Japan. When the boshki were slaughtered, they were soldiers, your de children have come together.

[1536]

Only the Japanese were still missing at the Parade ... For their provocative statements about the Kuril Islands, they need to give a turn from the gate. Separately to each and everyone together!

[Zomanus]

Well so it is necessary to ask permission from the owner.
If the owner allows, which is unlikely, they will go to the Parade.
Damn, Jap has such a face, as if he is preparing to poke a sharpening of our diplomat.