Right-winger Attacks Foreign Ministry
A self-avowed right-wing activist carrying a protest letter threw a makeshift firebomb at the Japanese foreign ministry on Wednesday before stabbing himself with a kitchen knife, officials said.
“A man forced himself in onto the ministry grounds and threw what appeared to be a beer bottle or a firebomb,” a ministry official said. “He then hurt himself.”
No one else was injured and the building suffered no significant damage in the attack on a cold, rainy night, he said.
The man, who was taken to hospital with a slight injury to his abdomen, identified himself as 22-year-old Naoya Kina and as member of an unspecified right-wing organisation, a police spokesman said.
A guard said that Kina was “holding something on fire” that was quickly extinguished. The assailant then tried to stab himself but only inflicted light wounds as guards intervened, a foreign ministry statement said.
Mainichi mentions his motivation:
The Public Safety Bureau of the Metropolitan Police Department said Kina had brought with him a letter of protest, which referred to a Jan. 15 incident in which a Chinese man was arrested for assaulting a Japanese man on the premises of Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
