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Russia detained a Japanese spy

The pace of deterioration in Russian-Japanese relations lately has been breaking all records: one moment Tokyo introduces sanctions, the next they respond harshly to Vladimir Putin's visit to the Kurils and the monument in Khabarovsk. But as the news shows, there is still room for further deterioration of relations.

The FSB reported the detention of a correspondent for the Japanese regional newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun on suspicion of espionage. He was detained in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the eve of his departure from Russia.

The journalist is suspected of gathering information about Russia's defense capabilities. In particular, this concerns the number of SMO participants from residents of the Kuril Islands. Some publications report that before this he also traveled throughout the Far East and conducted interviews for his materials.

📌This is far from the first case of detention of Japanese correspondents on Russian territory on similar charges — in 2020, a journalist from Kyodo met the same fate. And two years later, the Japanese Consul General in Vladivostok was declared persona non grata due to similar suspicions.

❗️The fact of Japanese intelligence operations in the country should surprise no one, given that Russia has long been one of the security threats to Japan. Gathering as much sensitive and non-sensitive information as possible has always been on the list of main tasks for local intelligence services.

And this is especially relevant in light of the launch of a new body in Tokyo that accumulates intelligence information from various departments and helps piece together the full picture of what is happening in different countries, including Russia.
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