Overview
- China’s Ministry of National Defense said Japan would “pay a tragic price” if it militarily intervened in a Taiwan contingency.
- The Chinese Foreign Ministry urged citizens to refrain from traveling to Japan, citing a deteriorated atmosphere and serious risks to personal safety.
- Beijing has lodged diplomatic protests and summoned Japan’s ambassador following the Diet statements that went beyond prior Japanese government positions.
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police assistant inspector Daisuke Jimbo was arrested on suspicion of leaking investigative information to the escort scouting group “Natural,” with about ¥9 million seized in an August search now under scrutiny for links to the alleged leaks.
- Police arrested three men on suspicion of confining a 48-year-old Tokyo man later found dead, and two of the suspects have already been arrested and indicted for disposing of the body in Ibaraki Prefecture.