Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) detained a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter in Sakhalin on suspicion of espionage, according to Jiji Press, in text republished by Nippon.com.

The detained man is a Japanese national, a correspondent in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of the Sakhalin region, and was reported to have been transferred to Moscow. Russia's Foreign Ministry said it regretted that Tokyo was using correspondents to carry out spying, according to Reuters, in text republished by The Japan Times.