Finger-chopping in Tokyo
It was only a matter of time until the latest flare up in Korean anger over the Liancourt Rocks dispute led to a finger-chopping:
A South Korean man in his 50s cut his finger with a knife Thursday morning in Tokyo’s Nagatacho district, location of Japan’s parliament, in protest over a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea, police said.
The man sustained a shallow cut of around 7 millimeters long at the tip of the ring finger of his right hand, the police said. He was apparently attempting to write his protest in blood on a flag, they said.
He was with several other people at the time on a sidewalk not far from the prime minister’s residence.
The man was quoted by the police as saying, “I am here to stage a protest over the Dokdo issue.”
