I don’t have the slightest grounds to love Tokyo. That’s certain courts that for some reason liked a story concocted by the FSB about how I – am a Japanese spy. But the Japanese officially repudiated all court decisions relative to me and my involvement with the intelligence services of the Land of the Rising Sun. The last Japanese person with whom I interacted, some 7 years ago, was a journalist from some kind of information agency. In so doing, I had such an impression that he was more afraid of meeting with me than of a kamikaze death.

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The Japanese are weak-hearted in general. (Just please don’t call it cautiousness). Rousing respect all the more then is their obstinate position in relation to the Kurile Islands. As a pragmatic (and weak-hearted) people, they understand well: it is better to be friendly with your neighbors. And especially with such a big neighbor as Russia.