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The story
On October 8, Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it has requested the Dutch government and others extradite International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane and eight others, who were convicted in absentia by a Moscow court last December. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for President Putin in 2023 over the invasion of Ukraine, and this move is widely seen as retaliation. On 5ch, the thread ranged from procedural debates — whether the ICC even has jurisdiction over non-member states like Russia, the US, and China — to the deeper historical background of Japan-Russia tensions.
[MOSCOW, Kyodo] Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced on the 8th that it has requested the Dutch government and others extradite International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane and eight others, who were convicted by a Moscow court last December.
Source: 47news.jp / Original article here
What people said
It's not Akane, it's Arale (a pun swapping her name for the Dr. Slump anime character).
Trump says Nobel Committee's "credibility will collapse" if he isn't the one who wins the Peace Prize
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0c7a5780a17be9c53109c8dd1fe4dfef82fcfc55
America, Russia, and Israel team up to rule the world. Any country that defies them gets nuked.
They're not a member, so they're fine unless they get detained in another country.
The US, Russia, China, Israel, India, etc. aren't members either. Even Japan only joined 20 years ago.
The ICC currently has 125 member states and territories.
Japan's accession date: October 1, 2007 (105th member)
If you commit a crime in Japan, anyone gets tried under Japanese law, right? By that logic, should a foreigner only ever be judged by the laws of their home country, no matter what they do in Japan?
Whether they're a member or not is irrelevant, so of course it applies.
Yeah, his behavior's been off lately. If his demands don't go through again, guess we'll get another one of his within-days flip-flops.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0c7a5780a17be9c53109c8dd1fe4dfef82fcfc55
No, it's YOUR credibility that's collapsed.
Did he even have credibility worth losing in the first place?
We learned it's because they want an ice-free port.
Russia is hostile toward the US-UK military-industrial complex and international finance capital. Japan often acts as their lapdog, which is exactly why Japan ends up on the receiving end when it plays that role.
Historically there were periods when Japan and Russia got along reasonably well. That said, they still just want an ice-free port.
It's payback for the Tokyo Trials!
Japan helped set it up? Then they joined awfully late for that.
The ICC currently has 125 member states and territories.
Japan's accession date: October 1, 2007 (105th member)
South Korea: February 1, 2003
Recent ratifications (since 2003):
104th: Chad, January 1, 2007
105th: Japan, October 1, 2007
106th: Madagascar, June 1, 2008
Because they tarnished the authority of Greater Russia.
Background and Key Points of This Story
In 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for President Putin over the forced deportation of children from Ukraine, treating it as a war crime. Russia is not an ICC member, so the warrant carries no legal force there, but in retaliation Russia has repeatedly convicted ICC staff — including President Tomoko Akane — in absentia in its own courts and sought their “extradition,” effectively running it like an international manhunt. In practice there’s almost no chance the Dutch government would comply, so this latest request amounts to little more than symbolic political theater. The thread blended two separate strands of discussion that are easy to conflate: a procedural debate over whether the ICC has any authority at all over non-member states like the US, Russia, China, Israel, and India, and a separate debate over the deeper historical friction between Japan and Russia (disputes over ice-free ports, among other things). Worth noting: Japan’s ICC membership dates only to 2007 — relatively late — so claims that Japan played a leading role in founding the court don’t hold up.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Breaking] Russia demands extradition of ICC President Akane and others.”
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