Japan embassy official meets reporter nearly 2 weeks after Russia detention

A Japanese Embassy official in Russia conducted a consular visit Monday with a Japanese journalist detained in the country nearly two weeks ago, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.The ministry said the Japanese national, who had been transferred to Moscow from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East right after being detained, had no health issues.Russia's security agency, the FSB, said on Oct. 13 that a correspondent for the Sapporo-based Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper was detained in Sakhalin on suspicion of espionage.It said he was collecting information under in…READ FULL ARTICLE