Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself.
The comment followed a meeting on Friday between Kishida and US President Joe Biden, after which the two leaders said any use of a nuclear weapon by Russia in Ukraine would be “an act of hostility against humanity”.
Medvedev, who was once seen as a Western-leaning reformer but has reinvented himself as an arch-hawk since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, accused the Kishida of having “betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” after the US dropped atomic bombs.
He said such shame could only be washed away by committing seppuku – a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as hara-kiri – at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida’s return.
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