Tokyo, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press)–Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Tuesday that it has detained a male reporter of Hokkaido Shimbun Press, a newspaper publisher in the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido, on suspicion of espionage. Russian news agency Tass reported the incident. The detained man, a Japanese national, is a correspondent of Hokkaido Shimbun’s bureau in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of the Sakhalin region in the Russian Far East. He was reported to have been transferred to Moscow from Sakhalin. The man is suspected of spying for a Japanese intelligence agency, according to the FSB. The Russian side is claiming that he gathered and stored information on the country’s defense capabilities. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
