Overview
- China’s Foreign Ministry urged citizens on Nov. 14 to refrain from visiting Japan, citing a serious risk to the safety of Chinese nationals following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about a Taiwan contingency.
- Taiwan’s Presidential Office criticized the move as a politically motivated composite threat, and LDP policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi called for a calm response and continued dialogue to keep ties constructive and stable.
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a 49-year-old former yakuza who posed as a monk on suspicion of selling a revolver and four rounds to an acquaintance in January in Ibaraki Prefecture.
- Investigators say the seized weapon was a clandestinely manufactured handgun with lethal capability and noted it was earlier found in a Yamanashi-linked warehouse, where the buyer was subsequently arrested and prosecuted under the firearms law.
- Hokkaido police reported a roughly ¥20 million impersonation fraud against a man in his 40s and a separate SNS investment scam attempt of about ¥600,000 that bank staff foiled, as Sapporo police also re-arrested a 35-year-old elementary school teacher on multiple sexual-offense charges.