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Japan’s embassy attacked, Chinese man held
South Korean police detained a Chinese man accused of throwing petrol bombs at the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Sunday after claiming his grandmother was forced into wartime sex slavery. The man also claimed responsibility for an arson attack last month on Japan’s controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, said police in Seoul, who are checking his family background and past trips to Japan. In the latest incident, the 38-year-old lobbed four molotov cocktails at the Japanese embassy, leaving burn marks on part of the outer wall, police in the South Korean capital said. “He said his deceased maternal grandmother was a ‘comfort woman’ and he was angry at the Japanese Government for its refusal to properly deal with the issue,” a police officer said.
South Korean police detained a Chinese man accused of throwing petrol bombs at the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Sunday after claiming his grandmother was forced into wartime sex slavery. The man also claimed responsibility for an arson attack last month on Japan’s controversial Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, said police in Seoul, who are checking his family background and past trips to Japan. In the latest incident, the 38-year-old lobbed four molotov cocktails at the Japanese embassy, leaving burn marks on part of the outer wall, police in the South Korean capital said. “He said his deceased maternal grandmother was a ‘comfort woman’ and he was angry at the Japanese Government for its refusal to properly deal with the issue,” a police officer said.
