Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a Japanese newspaper correspondent in the country’s Far East on suspicion of espionage, it said Tuesday, accusing him of collecting defense-related information.
The reporter, who works for the Hokkaido Shimbun’s bureau in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, was detained in the Sakhalin region shortly before he planned to leave Russia. He has been transferred to Moscow, according to the FSB.
The same day, the Foreign Ministry said?Russian Ambassador to Japan Nikolay Nozdrev?had been summoned by European Affairs Bureau official Kimitake Nakamura.
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