“We know that last year on December 25, a Kyodo journalist was detained by local law enforcement agencies ... The Japanese Foreign Ministry refrains from disclosing details of diplomatic contacts (on this issue. - RT ),” a spokesman for the foreign ministry told RIA Novosti.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that a Japanese citizen was detained in Russia on December 25, 2019 for trying to obtain classified materials about Russian military potential. As noted, the detainee was officially warned about the inadmissibility of actions that create the conditions for the commission of a crime under Art. 276 of the Criminal Code of Russia. A Japanese citizen was given 72 hours to leave Russia. The next day, the Japanese, who is in Russia on a journalistic visa, went to his homeland, they added to the Foreign Ministry.