Chinese national gets eight months in prison for Yasukuni Shrine graffiti case


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.

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