Japan’s Foreign Ministry hands Russian ambassador a protest note over the detention of a Hokkaido Shimbun journalist on Sakhalin
Japan’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador in Tokyo, Nikolai Nozdrev, and handed him a protest note over the detention in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk of Yuki Imai, a journalist for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun. On October 13, he was detained at a hotel on suspicion of espionage under Article 276 of the Criminal Code, after which he was sent to Moscow.