Japanese arrested on spying allegations
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CHINA has arrested two Japanese citizens on spying allegations, officials said yesterday.
“The legal basis of the arrests is that these two people engaged in spying in China,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing yesterday in Beijing.
“If there’s anything in common for these two people, it’s that both of them engaged in spying in China.”
Japanese Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga said yesterday that the two men were detained in May, one in Zhejiang Province and the other in Liaoning Province.
Japanese media reported that one was apprehended near military facilities in coastal Zhejiang, and the other near the border with North Korea at about the same time.
Suga said the Japanese government knew about the arrests soon after the two were detained but withheld the information due to safety reasons.
He refused to give details on the arrests, including the specific allegations the two face.
The government has provided support for the two through Japanese diplomatic establishments, Suga said. A Foreign Ministry official in charge of the safety of overseas Japanese said the two are in good health.
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