Japan Summons Russian Ambassador Over Detained Reporter

TREE NEWS update: Japan’s foreign ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador in Tokyo to protest the detention of a Japanese journalist. Russia’s Federal Security Service said on the 13th that it had detained a Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent in South Sakhalin, accusing the reporter of espionage. The journalist was detained while preparing to leave Russia and has been transferred to Moscow, where the case remains under investigation.