Japan is interested in conducting joint research with Yakutia on permafrost and climate change. This was stated by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Russia Toyohisa Kazuki at a meeting with the head of Yakutia Aisen Nikolaev.

According to Nikolayev, the Arctic theme is a promising area of cooperation between the two countries.

During the working visit, the Japanese diplomat visited the year-round greenhouse complex "Sayuri". This project has been implemented jointly with companies from Japan for five years. In the near future, the construction of greenhouse blocks with a total area of 1.2 hectares will be completed.

The head of the republic has previously called cooperation with Japanese partners one of the priorities of Yakutia's international relations. He considers the construction of wind power plants in the village of Tiksi to be a significant project — they were launched in 2018.

Russia and Japan are discussing a new concept of cooperation in the Far East and the Arctic. The document proposed by the Japanese side has been scrutinized by Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexei Chekunkov and Japan’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Toyohisa Kozuki.

Xi Jinping's administration has accurately designated intentions of China to expand influence in the Arctic and to strengthen sea positions in the Arctic Ocean, having for the first time published the White book on policy in this region.

The Asian states, having used astable relations of Russia with the West countries, stirred up the activity in projects on development of the Arctic territories.

Waterways of the message, which may lie across the Arctic, have a chance to become an important strategic route of national importance in the near future. The Government of Japan and the prospect sees huge potential in a detailed study of the Arctic waters, movement through that already in the next few years may begin first Japanese cargo ships with energy.

Japan intends to have a Pre Next, launch a project aimed at the development of an unmanned underwater vehicle that will provide oceanographic information. The purpose of the project - the study of Arctic waters.