In 2015, South Korean Chun Chang-han (31), who was incarcerated in the local area for the Yasukuni Shrine explosives in Japan, broke down.

According to the Justice Department, the Japanese government notified Chun and the South Korean government last month that it was not allowed to transfer Chun's international prisoners.

International Prisoner's Transfer is a system whereby criminals from foreign countries are sent to South Korea to continue to serve the remaining sentence.

Jeon asked his mother to move him to a domestic correctional facility in April 2017.

The Ministry of Justice sent a working group to the Japanese government in March last year to request transfer assistance but was not accepted.

An official from the Justice Department said, "We did not explain why the Japanese government cannot disagree."

Jeon was accused of installing gunpowder-filled ignition devices in the Yasukuni Shrine restrooms in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan on November 23, 2015, damaging the ceiling of the bathroom, etc. Etc.).

Both prisoners have been sentenced to four years in prison and are serving in local prisons.

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