Responding to a question on whether he endorsed the remarks on the election made by his predecessor Itō Naoki, envoy Iwama Kiminori said, “I have no idea about what my predecessor said. However, I Will refrain myself from commenting on this issue as elections are an internal matter of Bangladesh.
On 14 November 2022, the then Japanese ambassador to Dhaka Ito Naoki said that he had heard that police officers stuffed ballot boxes the night before voting [in last elections] And they never heard of such an incident happening in any other country.