The Russian cargo ship Amur pictured after colliding with Japanese crab fishing vessel Hokko Maru No. 8 in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan’s Hokkaido island, on May 26. Photo: Kyodo News via AP
‘Hostage diplomacy’? Russia’s seizure of Japanese trawler raises eyebrows as Russian arrested over fishermen’s deaths
- Moscow’s embassy in Tokyo on Monday demanded that Japan not ‘politicise’ the incident following the arrest of a Russian sailor over the three deaths
- Russia, in turn, has been accused by observers of ‘hostage diplomacy’ for seizing a Japanese trawler with 14 crew aboard two days after the fatal crash
The Russian cargo ship Amur pictured after colliding with Japanese crab fishing vessel Hokko Maru No. 8 in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan’s Hokkaido island, on May 26. Photo: Kyodo News via AP
