The Hokkaido Shimbun

A Japanese embassy official in Russia has attempted to check on a detained Japanese journalist accused of spying, but the meeting did not take place.

Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, announced on Tuesday that a correspondent of the Hokkaido Shimbun Press had been detained in the far eastern region of Sakhalin.

The FSB says the man has been transferred to Moscow.

On Friday, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Kihara Minoru, said the embassy had received a consular notification about the detention from the Russian side.

Japan protests as increasingly confident Russia plays hardball, Japan's foreign ministry on October 14 lodged protests to the Russian ambassador over two incidents that have heightened fears that an emboldened Moscow intends to exert more pressure on Tokyo.

One incident was the Russian authorities' arrest announced October 13 of a Japanese reporter for the Hokkaido Shimbun Press on suspicion of espionage.

The other was the visit by a Chinese delegation to Russian-held Itarofu Island, which is claimed by Japan.

Kimitake Nakamura, director-general of the Foreign Ministry's European Affairs Bureau, lodged the protests with Nikolai Nozdrev, the Russian ambassador to Japan, after the envoy was summoned to the ministry.

Yes, so this news has just come out and it's kind of triggered a lot of concern here in Japan.

So this journalist Yuki Amai, guy in his 30s who was reporting for a newspaper called the Hokkaido Shimbun, He has been reporting in Sakhalin, which is a Russian territory, but very close to the far north of Japan.

In fact, so much so that you can see it from the coast on a clear day.

And he's been carrying out reporting there.

Russian security authorities say they have detained a Japanese newspaper reporter on suspicion of spying.

The Federal Security Service, or FSB, announced on Tuesday that it had detained a locally based correspondent for The Hokkaido Shimbun in the far eastern region of Sakhalin.

The FSB accused the man of gathering information related to Russia's defense capabilities under instructions from a Japanese intelligence agency.

The authorities said he was taken into custody and transferred to Moscow immediately before he was due to leave Russia.

Russian security authorities say they have detained a Japanese newspaper reporter on suspicion of spying.

The Federal Security Service, or FSB, announced on Tuesday that it had detained a locally-based correspondent for the Hokkaido Shimbun in the far eastern region of Sakhalin.

The FSB accused the man of gathering information related to Russia's defense capabilities under instructions from a Japanese intelligence agency.

The authorities said he was taken into custody and transferred to Moscow immediately before he was due to leave Russia.

Japan has lodged a protest with Russia over the detention of a Japanese journalist on suspicion of espionage.

Russia's Federal Security Service says the journalist, who worked for Hokkaido Shimbun in the Russian Far East, was detained on Tuesday.

Russian media said he has been transferred to Moscow as the investigation continues.

Earlier, Moscow warned that the incident will further strain its relations with Tokyo.

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Those accusations came after the newspaper's earlier revelations that she told Greek officials during a formal dinner earlier this year that the US could destabilize any country we want.

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Russia has detained a Japanese journalist for espionage, the country's main security agency said yesterday Tuesday, alleging that the journalist had been collecting intelligence on the country's military capabilities.

The agency, the Federal Security Service, said in a statement that the journalist working for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun was arrested in Yuzhenko-Shachalinsk on the Pacific island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East.

It said the journalist, whom it did not name, had been transported to Moscow, where he was remanded into pre-trial custody by the Lefortovo District Court.