Abstract：This article argues that the Kishida government adopted a strategy focusing on comprehensive sanctions against Russia, multilateral interaction with the US and Europe, and supplemented by diversified assistance to Ukraine, following in the footsteps of the United States to enhance the level of cooperation with the United States and Europe, Japan’s sanctions have dealt a heavy blow to Russia, especially affecting Russia’s economy and finances, prompting Russia to implement a series of counter-sanctions measures. Japanese sanctions also have multiple impacts on Japan’s national construction. On the one hand, Japan’s energy security, price stability, and other related issues have been greatly affected; on the other hand, Japan takes the opportunity to strengthen its security capabilities. Moreover, Japan’s sanctions against Russia have pushed Japan-US security cooperation to a new level, and Japan-Europe cooperation has taken on new trends and characteristics, affecting the reform of the United Nations, Japan’s “Indo-Pacific Strategy” and the direction of the international order. However, Japan’s sanctions against Russia also suffer from constraints such as insufficient capacity and willingness, and asymmetry of the Japan-Russia economic and trade structure, which affects the durability and effectiveness of Japan’s sanctions against Russia. Fundamentally, the persistence of sanctions against Russia is a front for Japan to shake off the post-war shackles, break the deadlock in the Japan-Russia territorial dispute, and strengthen its ability to balance China. In this regard, China should, based on the “Chinese Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukrainian Crisis”, maintain its strategic stability, resolutely avoid the emergence of a “new cold war”, make good preparations for risks, and make good preparations for the reconstruction of the region.
