Japan hunts man who spray-painted ‘toilet’ on Yasukuni Shrine in Chinese social media video

“Faced with the Japanese government’s permission to discharge nuclear waste water, can we do anything?” the man asks. “No, I will give them some colour to see.”

In another part of the video taken at night, he is seen apparently urinating on the pillar and using spray paint to write “toilet” in English.

Tokyo police are investigating at least two suspects, the person who appeared in the video and another who shot it, according to Japanese media including NHK public television and Kyodo News agency. Police believe the incident occurred late on Friday after the shrine closed and that the perpetrator is believed to have already left Japan, they said.

Police declined to confirm the reports.

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Place of controversy: Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine

Yasukuni Shrine honours about 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including convicted war criminals.

The graffiti appeared to have been cleaned by Monday.