A Japanese academic returned home on Friday after being released by China follow...
FILE PHOTO: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
The professor at Hokkaido University, who is in his forties but was not identified, is in good health, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang confirmed in Beijing that the academic had been sent back home. He said he had been “educated and admonished” for being found with documents containing Chinese state secrets in his hotel room.Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi declined to provide details on why the man had been detained, citing the sensitive nature of the issue, but said he and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been “firmly” asking for the man’s release.
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