A real manifestation of Japan's solidarity and sympathy for Ukraine would be the abolition of the visa regime between the two countries, said Alena Getmanchuk, director of the New Europe Center, in the article "

“Unlike some European countries, sympathy for Ukraine and Ukrainians was somewhat easier to germinate in Japanese society, since it was already quite skeptical of Russia and President Putin by the beginning of the full-scale invasion..

Today, distrust of the Russian Federation has reached a record high in Japanese society - 94% of the country's inhabitants "

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A separate manifestation of Japan's sympathy and solidarity with Ukraine in Tokyo is the fact that Ukrainian refugees in Japan have the status of not refugees, but evacuees - this is constantly emphasized by Japanese officials and politicians.. Compared to the number of evacuees in the EU countries, there is a small proportion of Ukrainians in Japan - only more than two thousand people, but for Japan, with its extremely strict immigration and refugee admission policy, this is a fairly significant number.. In 2021, 74 refugees were considered a record in Japan.