A Chinese national living in Japan was sentenced to eight months in prison for vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The court ruled that his actions were unforgivable and dismissed his claims that it was a protest against the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
A Tokyo court sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison for his involvement in a May graffiti incident at the capital's war-linked Yasukuni Shrine. Jiang Zhuojun, 29, was on trial at the Tokyo District Court on charges of damaging property and disrespecting a place of worship. According to the ruling, he and two other Chinese men vandalized a stone pillar at the controversial shrine by spray-painting the word “toilet” on it on May 31.
In handing down the ruling, Judge Yasushi Fuke said Jiang had played a crucial role by buying the spray paint and that it is “unforgivable to turn to illegal actions to express one’s views”. It dismissed Jiang's claims that his actions were a protest against the release of treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, which began in 2023. The two other Chinese nationals involved in the case left Japan for China. Japanese police have placed them on a wanted list. Yasukuni Shrine has long been a source of diplomatic friction with China and other Asian countries for honoring wartime Japanese leaders, who were convicted as war criminals in a post-World War II international tribunal
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