Chinese man sentenced for vandalizing Yasukuni Shrine

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a Chinese man to eight months in jail for vandalizing the war-related Yasukuni Shrine.

According to the ruling, Jiang Zhuojun, 29, conspired with two different Chinese males to write down “rest room” in crimson spray paint on a pillar on the shrine on May 31.

Handing down the ruling, judge Yasushi Fuke mentioned that Jiang actively performed a necessary position within the case, resembling previewing the positioning and getting ready the spray paint, though his duty was lighter than the opposite two, who’re on the wished record.

Referring to his declare that he supposed to protest the discharge into the ocean of tritium-containing handled water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear energy plant, the judge mentioned, “It can’t be thought-about an extenuating issue.”