Character for "death" found graffitied at Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine

Police said Monday they have launched an investigation after the kanji character for "death" was found graffitied on two spots of a stone wall at the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, after similar defacement incidents in June and August.Following the June incident, in which a stone pillar bearing the shrine's name was found to be defaced with the word "toilet" spray-painted in red, a Chinese man living in Japan was indicted in July for property damage and desecration of a place of worship, while two other Chinese men have been put on wanted lists.The incident in August mainly consisted …READ FULL ARTICLE