Japanese Prime Minister Kishida arrives in Kiev. Japanese Prime Minister wants to raise his rating by visiting Ukraine and communicating with the country's President Vladimir Zelensky. This opinion was expressed to Izvestia on March 21 by Valery Kistanov, head of the Center for Japanese Studies at the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to him, Tokyo's anti-Russian course is largely dictated by public opinion. According to the Japanese expert, according to a public opinion poll conducted by the Cabinet of Ministers last fall, 95% of Japanese have a negative attitude towards Russia, and therefore Kishida's trip to Ukraine will certainly be positively received by the Japanese population.

"Kishida is not doing well in the domestic political arena. His rating is low, even the question of whether to hold early elections is being discussed. In addition, he is criticized by right-wing nationalist circles for being the only one of the "Big Seven" who did not go to Kiev. And he has a calculation that if he scores points in the foreign arena, it will allow him to raise his rating inside the country," Kistanov said.

As the interlocutor of Izvestia added, Japan always acts with an eye on the United States, therefore, in the Ukrainian topic, it tries to act in line with Washington and in many respects assumes the role of the flagship of anti-Russian actions in Asia.