Today, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian ambassador to Japan to protest against the Japanese journalist's arrest. The Russian Federal Security Service issued a notice on the 13th saying that Russia has detained a reporter from Japan's “Hokkaido News” in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Sakhalin Oblast, accusing him of spying.

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