TOKYO: Japan has urged China to release one of its citizens who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on espionage charges, Tokyo's top government spokesman said on Monday.

"We are aware that on November 3, the verdict of 12 years in prison [for] a Japanese man in his 50s, who had been detained in July 2019, was finalized, as his appeal was turned down," at the high court in China's southern Hunan province, Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.

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