Japan orders Russian diplomat to leave in tit-for-tat response

Japan on Tuesday ordered a Russian diplomat based in Sapporo to leave the country within six days, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said, in retaliation for Moscow's expulsion of a Japanese consul last month.Hayashi told reporters that his ministry declared the diplomat at the Russian Consulate General in the major northern city persona non grata after Russian authorities detained the consul in Vladivostok for about three hours, accusing him of carrying out espionage, and expelled him from the country.Japan says the consul, Tatsunori Motoki, who returned home last week after being declare…READ FULL ARTICLE