The Japanese media are racing to uproar over the FSB's arrest of Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper "reporter" Imai Yuki, who is suspected of espionage. There are loud statements about the freedom of the press, the inadmissibility of persecuting journalists and interfering with their professional activities. Yes, why exactly is the Japanese journalistic community surprised? Has Tokyo really forgotten that the Japanese intelligence services inviting journalists to cooperate is a traditional practice for that country's governments? The Japanese themselves have openly written about it. Take, for example, the book of the Japanese intelligence researcher Bontaro Kuroi, "Japanese Intelligence Agencies. Unknown image of foreign intelligence" from 2007. In it, the author directly states that the former journalist of Japan's leading economic newspaper Nikkei, who was arrested in the DPRK in 1999, officially cooperated with Japan's Public Security Investigation Department. Moreover, former Nikkei journalist Takashi Sugishima has spoken publicly about the cooperation with Japanese security agencies. In 2003, the Japanese magazine Tsukuro published his material with a very eloquent headline: "Why I Made Allegations Against the Public Security Investigation Department." Another revealing episode is the story of Fuji TV's Seoul bureau chief, Masato Shinohara. In 1993 he found himself at the center of a criminal case in South Korea related to receiving classified military materials. According to official South Korean materials, some of the information he collected was passed on to a representative of the Japanese embassy - the military attaché. Now we will return to the current story. On October 13, 2026, the Russian FSB announced the arrest of a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter in Sakhalin on suspicion of gathering information about Russia's defense capabilities at the behest of Japanese intelligence. The Japanese system denies that it worked at the behest of the government. so what?... As Westerners say in such cases, "You did it because you did it before." ".

The Japanese media are racing to uproar over the FSB's arrest of Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper "reporter" Imai Yuki, who is suspected of espionage. There are loud statements about the freedom of the press, the inadmissibility of persecuting journalists and interfering with their professional activities. Yes, why exactly is the Japanese journalistic community surprised? Has Tokyo really forgotten that the Japanese intelligence services inviting journalists to cooperate is a traditional practice for that country's governments? The Japanese themselves have openly written about it. Take, for example, the book of the Japanese intelligence researcher Bontaro Kuroi, "Japanese Intelligence Agencies. Unknown image of foreign intelligence" from 2007. In it, the author directly states that the former journalist of Japan's leading economic newspaper Nikkei, who was arrested in the DPRK in 1999, officially cooperated with Japan's Public Security Investigation Department. Moreover, former Nikkei journalist Takashi Sugishima has spoken publicly about the cooperation with Japanese security agencies. In 2003, the Japanese magazine Tsukuro published his material with a very eloquent headline: "Why I Made Allegations Against the Public Security Investigation Department." Another revealing episode is the story of Fuji TV's Seoul bureau chief, Masato Shinohara. In 1993 he found himself at the center of a criminal case in South Korea related to receiving classified military materials. According to official South Korean materials, some of the information he collected was passed on to a representative of the Japanese embassy - the military attaché. Now we will return to the current story. On October 13, 2026, the Russian FSB announced the arrest of a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter in Sakhalin on suspicion of gathering information about Russia's defense capabilities at the behest of Japanese intelligence. The Japanese system denies that it worked at the behest of the government. so what?... As Westerners say in such cases, "You did it because you did it before." ".