Chinese man says he defaced Yasukuni Shrine with ‘toilet’ graffiti to protest Fukushima discharge

Jiang Zhuojun, 29, pleaded guilty at the Tokyo District Court to charges of damaging property and disrespecting a place of worship, and said the motive behind his actions was not related to history issues.

Jiang was indicted for allegedly conspiring with two other men to vandalise a stone pillar at the shrine and spray-paint the word “toilet” in English on May 31. The damage is estimated at 4.6 million yen (US$30,000).

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Japan hunts for man seen on Chinese social media spray-painting ‘toilet’ on Yasukuni Shrine

The two other men are also Chinese nationals, Dong Guangming and Xu Laiyu, who left Japan for China on June 1. A video was posted on Chinese social media showing a man appearing to urinate on the stone pillar before spray-painting it.