Trade

Sanctions of 58 Russian Generals, 9 Russian entities and 23 Generals who are considered to have been directly responsible for the unilateral annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

A ban on exporting products of Japanese origin to 20 designated entities and one General of the Russian Federation.
A ban on exporting to Russia products of Japanese origin that can be used for the production of chemical weapons etc.

Sanctions include the designation of an additional 57 Generals and 6 entities related to the Russian Federation and 5 Generals, who are subjected to restrictions on payments, requiring a license to make a payment to the designated persons or entities, and restrictions on capital transactions, requiring a license for capital transactions including deposits, trusts, and loan contracts with the designated persons or entities. Effective 5 July 2022, the Japanese government introduced an export ban to the designated entities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Effective from July 2022, the provision of trust, accounting and auditing services, and management consulting services to the Russian Federation is prohibited unless a license has been obtained from the Japanese government. This ban does not apply to the provision of such services to subsidiaries of Japanese companies in Russia.

The Japanese government designated two additional Russian banks, Credit Bank of Moscow and Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselkhozbank), and one Belarusian bank, Belinvestbank (Belarusian Bank for Development and Reconstruction). These banks are subject to restrictions on payments, requiring a license to make a payment to the designated banks, and restrictions on capital transactions, requiring a license for capital transactions including deposits, trusts, and loan contracts with the designated persons or entities. The asset freeze measures against the newly designated banks will go into effect on July 7, 2022. Additionally, effective June 17, 2022, the Japanese government introduced an export ban on a variety of products that strengthen Russia’s industrial base. Products subject to the export ban, including related technologies, cover wood and articles of wood such as sheets for veneering and coopers’ products, reservoirs, tanks, vats and similar containers of iron or steel, interchangeable tools for hand tools or machine-tools, knives and cutting blades for machines, boilers, machineries and accessories and parts thereof, electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof, rail locomotives and railway or tramway maintenance or service vehicles and open wagons, vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling-stock and parts and accessories thereof, and optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision instruments and parts and accessories thereof.