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Foreign Minister Motegi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the United States, where he was visiting. It has been almost five years since the Japanese and Russian foreign ministers met in person, and Minister Mogi urged the immediate release of the detained Hokkaido Shimbun reporter.
Japanese public opinion
Reactions in the comment sections of related Japanese TV news videos on YouTube.
Positive / Negative toward: Japan's demand that Russia immediately release a detained Japanese journalist
Positive points
Talks like this matter, and I'm glad Motegi is pushing for his release.
Japan should trade for the Russian spies held here.
Russia should stop detaining Japanese people; Japan has been fair to them.
Negative points
Japan has no leverage, so this diplomacy is going nowhere.
Russia won't listen, so this will probably drag on for years.
Not sure one journalist is worth this much diplomatic effort.
This is not a random-sample survey. It covers only comments posted on these YouTube videos, which were classified and summarized by AI. The speech bubbles are AI-written paraphrases of common points, not quotes from actual comments.