Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ukrainebecause of the war in RussiaIt imposed a new sanction against .
17 individuals and 78 organizations were included in the sanctions against Russia.
If sanctioned persons and entities are located in Japan, their accounts will be frozen. They are also prohibited from engaging in any financial activity.
Personal sanctions were also imposed on seven people from new territories, including Luhansk and Donetsk, which Russia has annexed in Ukraine.
DEFENSE INDUSTRY COMPANIES ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN SANCTIONS
On a corporate basis, sanctions were imposed on a number of Russian aircraft factories, in particular the Ural, Sokol, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Irkutsk aircraft factories.
In addition, sanctions were imposed on the Machinery Design Bureau, Saturn United Aircraft Corporation, Pulsar Research and Production Enterprise, GAZ Group, ROSEL trading house, Independent Insurance Group, Makeyev State Rocket Center, and others.
SENIOR SOLDIERS ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE SANCTION LIST
It froze the assets of senior officers of the Russian Armed Forces Command, as well as the head of the Almaz-Antey company Yan Novikov and TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva.
In the section on the command echelon of the Russian Armed Forces, there are the names of the Commander of the Western Group, Lieutenant General Mikhail Zusko, the Commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, the Commander of the 90th Guards Tank Division, Major General Ramil Ibatullin, and others.
Since the implementation of the sanctions, Japan announced that the assets of 987 people, 129 organizations and 12 banks have been frozen and 357 organizations, companies and institutions related to the defense industry have been banned from exporting from Japan.