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A correspondent for Japan’s Hokkaido Shimbun was detained on Sakhalin after Russia’s FSB accused him of spying for Japanese intelligence, Russian propaganda agency TASS reported on Oct. 13.
The Lefortovo Court in Moscow ordered the 34-year-old journalist, Yuki Imai, detained.
Imai worked for the newspaper’s bureau. Hokkaido Shimbun is Japan’s largest regional daily.
According to the FSB, Imai collected and stored information related to Russia’s defense capabilities with the intention of passing it to Japanese intelligence services. The Lefortovo court ordered his arrest.
Russian outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti reported that the arrived in Russia this summer.
He traveled through Primorsky Krai, visiting Vladivostok and Nakhodka. He interviewed Russian-speaking residents of Japan and took an interest in life in Russia’s Far East. People who traveled with him said he spoke and understood Russian fairly well.
Imai was interested in the history of the Soviet–Japanese war and relations between Russia and Japan. In June, he joined children from a local youth center in examining a site where Japanese prisoners of war were held in 1946.
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