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A Japanese journalist suspected of spying has been arrested on Russia's Sakhalin Island, the top Russian domestic security agency said Tuesday (October 13, 2026).
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The arrest comes amid a spike in tensions between Russia and Japan following Russian President Vladimir Putin's August trip to the Kuril Islands, the Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that is claimed by both countries.
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The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said in a statement that the Japanese man, who worked for the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper, was suspected of gathering information related to Russia's defence capability on behalf of a Japanese intelligence agency.
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The FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet KGB, said the Japanese man, whom it didn't name, was arrested as he was preparing to leave Russia.
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The agency said the suspect was flown to Moscow, where he was put behind bars.
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The FSB released a video showing masked agents in black outfits arresting the man in a hotel room and then escorting him to a plane bound for Moscow.
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He was then shown facing a judge at the Lefortovo District Court, who ordered him to be held in custody for two months pending the probe.
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Russia's Sakhalin region includes Sakhalin Island and the four southernmost islands of the Kuril chain, which Japan calls the Northern Territories.
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Putin visited one of them, Iturup, in August.
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The Soviet Union took the Kuril Islands from Japan in the final days of World War II, and the ongoing dispute has prevented the countries from signing a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities.
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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Putin's visit, his first to the islands, was “incompatible with the Japanese position on the Northern Territories” and was “absolutely unacceptable.”
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She said it was a further blow to already-strained ties between the two countries over Ukraine.
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Moscow responded by summoning the Japanese ambassador to protest the “anti-Russia” statements by Takaichi and other Japanese officials, emphasising that “Russia's sovereignty and jurisdiction over the southern Kuril Islands are absolutely unshakable.”
Decades of diplomatic efforts to negotiate a settlement haven't produced any visible results.
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Over the years, Moscow has also bolstered its military presence on the Kurils in moves that appeared to underscore its firm stance in the dispute.
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In recent years, Russia has arrested many foreigners -- mainly Americans -- on various criminal charges and then released them in prisoner swaps with the United States and other Western nations.
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The largest exchange since the Cold War took place in August 2024, when Moscow freed journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, fellow American Paul Whelan, and Russian dissidents in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free.
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