Japan dismisses 'ridiculous' Russian criticism of military buildup

Japan's U.N. ambassador on Thursday dismissed as "ridiculous" Russia's criticism of its military buildup at a time when Moscow was continuing its war against Ukraine in violation of the U.N. Charter.



On Tuesday, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the first session of a U.N. Security Council meeting on upholding the U.N. charter and strengthening multilateral cooperation that "remilitarization" in Germany and Japan was a dangerous threat to global security and was undoing the results

of World War Two.



Japan's envoy, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, said Japan had always been faithful to the U.N. Charter and upheld international law, while Russia was "continuing its aggression against Ukraine in violation of the charter."



"Japan's efforts to strengthen its defense capabilities are a response to an increasingly severe security environment and are not directed against any specific country. Japan has consistently maintained an exclusively defense-oriented policy under its constitution," Yamazaki said.