Director Takasu also offered a bounty for the “Yasukuni Graffiti Man”… “Can we arrest him? What about China’s payback?” The expert’s “Surprising Answer” to the question “Can we arrest him?

Dong Guangming, 36, a Chinese national, is wanted by the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for the crime of vandalism to property in which graffiti was found on a stone pillar at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. He is currently on the run in China, but Katsuya Takasu of the “Takasu Clinic” wrote in his X on July 10,

We have a bounty on his head. I will inform the people of China. I will transfer $100,000 to the account of the person who threw this criminal into the Japanese embassy. Any way you like to throw him in is fine. The sooner the better.

The post stated that a bounty of $100,000 (about 15.7 million yen, as of January 20) would be paid if the Dong suspect was caught.

Dong left Japan after writing the graffiti, and TBS successfully interviewed Dong in China.

TBS has successfully interviewed Dong in China, but he said, “I will not turn myself in, I have no regrets, and I am not afraid.”

He said, “I will not turn myself in, I have no regrets, and I am not afraid.

He said he would not show remorse, but would possibly go back to Japan to protest the discharge of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean. However, since he is wanted, it is obvious that he will be arrested the moment he enters Japan.

According to Japanese government data, the planned ocean discharge of “treated water” from Fukushima Daiichi is less than 22 trillion becquerels, while several Chinese nuclear power plants have released about 6.5 times that amount of radioactive tritium.

The Chinese government does not report such inconvenient matters, and since the country does not allow social networking freely, the graffiti suspect himself may be under the mistaken impression that only Japan is really discharging treated water. The concentration of tritium in Japan’s treated water is far below the World Health Organization (WHO) and other standards,” said a TV station official.

Meanwhile, a Chinese national, Jiang Zhukun, who assisted in the purchase of the spray and other activities, was arrested in Japan, and Xu Laiyu, the suspect who played a role in the filming, is wanted in Japan.

What I am wondering is, if the suspect Dong was “thrown” into the Japanese embassy as Mr. Takasu has stated in his post, can he be arrested and transferred? ……

According to an international journalist familiar with the embassy situation

According to an international journalist familiar with the embassy situation, “If he committed a crime on the spot, such as hitting someone in the embassy, he could be arrested as a private citizen. However, embassy staff basically do not have the right to arrest or investigate, so even if Dong, a suspect wanted by Japan, came to the embassy, it would be difficult to arrest him, even though the embassy premises are Japanese territory,” says an international journalist familiar with the embassy situation.

Even if a Japanese wanted suspect comes to the embassy, it would be difficult to arrest him, even though the embassy is Japanese territory,” he said.

Nevertheless, even if Japan overcomes the hurdles and manages to arrest Dong, the concern is China’s retaliation.

For example, in the 2010 collision between a Chinese fishing boat operating illegally near the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture and the Japanese Coast Guard, the captain of the boat was detained, but the Chinese government reacted violently and retaliation measures were taken. The Japanese government was so put off by China’s intransigence that the captain was abruptly sent home on a chartered plane.

At present, five people are still detained under the Anti-Spying Law. There is a possibility that Japanese nationals may be arrested as a form of “harassment.

Yu Inamura, president of the Japan Counter Intelligence Association and an expert on China’s espionage activities, told us, “The Chinese government has been trying to arrest Japanese nationals since the capture of the fishing boats,

He said, “This is a completely different case from the one in which a fishing boat was seized. One of the reasons is that the background of the video is that the suspect, Dong, is a “nuisance” YouTuber who is aiming for a flaming effect. One is that the background of the video is very much in the nature of a “nuisance YouTuber” who is trying to create a flame effect. It is hard to imagine that China would be 100% positive about them. In the first place, I assume that the Chinese regime is aware that the Dong suspects and others who engage in such radical activities are radical activists who may turn on the Chinese regime at any moment, i.e., they may become a threat.

Second, the Anti-Spying Law is a law that cracks down on spying mainly as a domestic counterintelligence activity, and the place where Japanese nationals are arrested under this law is the Ministry of State Security, an agency responsible for counterintelligence. This Ministry of State Security has the authority to identify spy organizations and individuals, and arrests them using the Anti-Spying Law and other laws when they engage in activities that threaten national security in China. Given the nature of the case and the Chinese regime’s perception of Dong and the others, it is difficult to imagine that the Ministry of State Security would return to detain the Japanese nationals in retaliation.

He analyzed the situation as follows.

Surprisingly, China will not take an extreme stance even if Dong is arrested. Will the day really come when he is arrested?