Chinese Man Attacks Japanese Embassy in Seoul

A Chinese man threw several Molotov cocktails at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, according to media reports on Sunday.
Chinese Man Attacks Japanese Embassy in Seoul
1/8/2012
Updated:
1/8/2012

A Chinese man threw several Molotov cocktails at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, according to media reports on Sunday.

The man claimed that his grandmother was forced into sexual slavery as one of the so-called “comfort women” by the Japanese military during World War II, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

The man was identified as having the last name Lui from Guangzhou Province in southern China, police told the news agency. Authorities reported that he arrived in South Korea as a tourist having come from China via Japan.

“We discovered Lui is the one who claimed to have set fire on the door of Japan’s Yasukuni Shrine last month,” a police spokesperson told Yonhap, referring to a Shinto shrine that was erected for soldiers and others who died fighting for the emperor of Japan. It also contains a museum dedicated to World War II.

According to the Korea Times, two of the firebombs went over the wall of the embassy but did not catch fire. None of the homemade bombs caused injury or property damage.

Police said Lui made 11 firebombs in all but only threw four, according to the Times.

The issue of “comfort women” has been a consistent sore point between South Korea and Japan.