He has not admitted to charges, the Metropolitan Police Department official said.
S.Korea man arrested in connection with Japan shrine blast(Reuters)
A South Korean man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a blast last month at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead, an official at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said.
The shrine is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan's past military aggression.
The
explosion in a men's washroom at the shrine on Nov. 23, when more than
100 people were gathered for a harvest ritual, caused no injuries.
Police arrested Jeon Changhan,
27, for unlawful entry. He was detained when he returned to Japan from
South Korea on Wednesday morning. Media said he had taken a flight back
to South Korea soon after the incident.
He has not admitted to charges, the Metropolitan Police Department official said.
Yasukuni
Shrine honours Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied
Tribunal, along with war dead, and visits by top Japanese politicians
there have angered China and South Korea, where memories of Japanese
occupation and colonialism before and during World War Two still run
deep.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry said its
Tokyo embassy had heard about the arrest from the Japanese police, and
that the ministry plans to provide necessary consular assistance to the
person under arrest.
In January 2013, a South
Korean court ruled that a Chinese citizen who carried out an arson
attack on the shrine could not be extradited to Japan as he had
committed a "political crime" and might not get a fair trial.
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