Tokyo: A Chinese man suspected of starting a fire inside a Tokyo war shrine at the centre of rows with Japan’s Asian neighbours was arrested by police, reports said.
The man, 55, allegedly set fire to a pile of newspapers inside the grounds of the Yasukuni Shrine, which honours 2.5 million war dead but also enshrines top World War II criminals.
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