Japanese sentenced to prison after "spy" in China Source: Close to homecoming July 2 at 15:02

In 2015, a Japanese man in his 50s who was detained by the Chinese authorities for being involved in espionage in northeastern China and was sentenced to imprisonment was found to leave the prison sentence on the 1st and return home soon .. In China, Japanese are being detained one after another for suspected espionage, but it seems that the first time a convicted person returns to Japan.

A Japanese man in his 50s in Kanagawa Prefecture was detained by the Chinese authorities in May 2015 in the border area with North Korea in Liaoning Province in northeastern China for being involved in espionage, and in July 2018 Dandong in Liaoning Province. Was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in court.

According to Japanese officials, the man had been serving prisons in China since then, but he is expected to return to Japan soon after he was released from prison on the 1st.

It is said that this man had traveled to North Korea with his Korean father in Japan and his Japanese mother, then defected to Japan and returned to Japan to acquire Japanese nationality.

Since 2015, many Japanese have been detained for suspected espionage in China, but it seems that this is the first time that a person who has been found guilty in China has returned to Japan.