Workers prepare to remove graffiti on a pillar at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo in June. --Photo: Kyodo via AP
TOKYO: A Tokyo court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese national living in Japan to eight months in prison over 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.
