Japan on Tuesday demanded Russia apologise for detaining a diplomat over alleged espionage, denying the charge and accusing Moscow of blindfolding and pinning the man down in ‘unbelievable acts’.
Motoki Tatsunori, a Japanese diplomat based in the eastern city of Vladivostok, was deemed ‘persona non grata over illegal intelligence activities’, top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters, citing the Russian foreign ministry.
‘The official was blindfolded, with pressure applied to both his hands and head so he was unable to move while being detained, and then he was questioned in an overbearing way,’ Matsuno said.
Japan ‘strongly protests these unbelievable acts’, he said, denying the espionage allegations.
The released consul has had no problem with health conditions and will depart Russia by Wednesday, Matsuno said.
The FSB had earlier said that Tatsunori was declared persona non grata after he was caught ‘red-handed’ while receiving classified information, in exchange for money, about Russia’s cooperation with another country in the Asia-Pacific region’.
The diplomat had also been soliciting information about ‘the impact of Western sanctions’ on the eastern Primorsky region, the FSB said, according to news agencies.
Japan summoned the Russian ambassador and ‘demanded a formal apology’ for the treatment of the diplomat upon his detention, which Matsuno said violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
‘The detained consul was not engaging in any illegal activity,’ Matsuno said, adding the Japanese deputy foreign minister told the Russian ambassador to Japan that Tokyo ‘needs to take equivalent steps’ and demanded a formal apology from Moscow.
The Russian security service distributed a short video it said showed the diplomat acknowledging that he had violated Russian laws, and reportedly said Moscow had lodged a protest with Tokyo through diplomatic channels.
Russia considers Japan to be a ‘hostile’ country – a designation it shares with all European Union countries, the United States and its allies, including Britain and Australia.
Tokyo had complex relations with Moscow before the invasion of Ukraine in February, and the two sides have yet to sign a post-World War II peace treaty.
Attempts to do so have been hampered by a long-running dispute over islands controlled by Russia, which calls them the Kurils.
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Russia is a satanic nation, It was consecrated to LUCIFER, in the blood of 66 million Christians in the communist revolution. State owned capitalism, miss named as Communism is in fact satanism, as is capitalism in any form. The Russians want to play the good guy and pretend that they are fater the NWO to destroy it. Nothing could be farther than the truth. It is the NWO con, let one of their own (Russia and China) pretend to take down the NWO, because the world wants that. Better to make them falsely belive it is being taken down while it continues to decieveand take over the entire world. China is also consecrated to Lucifer in the blood of Christians, it once had more Christians than the entire rest of the world combined. It took 100 years and 100’s of millions of blood of innocent lives to consecrate China in its communist revolution, it too is state owned capitalism. It is as Satanic as Russia is. Now with the big fake WW3, a con game of good against evil when it is only in truth evil devouring the entire world , they want many Billions of people to be tortured, slaughtered, starved and enslaved in concentration camps, to consecrate the world to Lucifer.
The same people who funded and carried out the communist revolutions, then created Israel and consecrated it to Lucifer in the Blood of 10’s of millions of innocent civilians.
They also took over the Vatican and set up all the new evangelical religions to worship them and Israel.
Now you will all pay for allowing it, and not seeing the truth. They are con artists, the Luciferian Bankers who run the money system, the UN and the satanic freemasonry on this earth, HATE you all, laugh at you and sadistically take pleasure in all the suffering they can inflict on you all.
They are the fallen angels of Hell, and in this battle with God for your souls, they are winning.
You are overlooking the fact that communist Jews ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 after they caused Christian Russia to cease to exist in 1922. The communist Jews were non-Russian. You should read the excellent book by Captain Archibald Ramsay, THE NAMELESS WAR.