Japan

Sorge’s Spy is Brought in From the Cold. A Soviet-Okinawan Connection

8 February 2010

Japan Focus, 7 Feb 10: The Sorge espionage case concerns one of the most spectacular instances of clandestine influence in the history of international relations.
In the mid-1930s, the former Soviet Union enlisted the German national, Dr. Richard Sorge and four others in Tokyo, secretly to collect information on the likely policies of the Japanese government [...]

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‘Sorge’ spy case suspect’s kin get Soviet-era award

15 January 2010

Japan Times, 15 Jan 10: A Soviet-era decoration was awarded Wednesday to a relative of Yotoku Miyagi, a painter accused of complicity in leaking Japanese intelligence data to a wartime Soviet spy.
At the Russian Embassy in Tokyo, Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Bely awarded the Order of the Patriotic War medal, second class, to Toshiko [...]

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