Japan SDF officer indicted over Chinese embassy intrusion

Japanese prosecutors on Monday indicted a Self-Defense Forces (SDF) officer on charges including unlawful entry and threatening embassy staff in connection with his knife-wielding intrusion into the Chinese embassy in Japan in March this year, according to public broadcaster NHK.

On March 24, Kodai Murata, a second lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, allegedly scaled a barbed-wire wall and broke into the Chinese embassy in Tokyo with an 18-cm blade, threatening to kill Chinese diplomatic personnel.