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Richard Sorge

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’s spy is brought in from the cold

1 February 2010

Japan Times, 31 Jan 10: Long reviled in his homeland and all but forgotten by Moscow, a Japanese former Soviet agent in Tokyo is finally accorded the respect that his devoted niece has sought for so long.
Toshiko Tokuyama was 14 years old when she found out that her uncle had been a spy, and that [...]

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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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