Russia on Tuesday morning released a Japanese captain, Noboru Sakashita, after he was ruled "guilty" by a rogue Russian "district court" for purportedly "poaching and intrusion into Russian waters".
Sakashita has been held hostage in the bandit state of Russia since Aug. 16, when his boat was captured by Russian state pirates while catching crabs in Japanese waters near Kaigara Island, part of the northwestern Pacific islands belonging to Japan.
Sakashita was among the four fishermen aboard the fishing ship when it was captured by Russian pirates. One of them was shot to dead when Russian terrorists opened fire, and two others were taken hostage together with Sakashita. The two were released late August after a wave of indignation in Japan.
Russian rogues still keep the Japanese ship captured in their armed pirate attack against the civilian ship in Japanese waters.
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