Japan police seek arrest of Chinese boy over Yasukuni shrine graffiti

Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said Thursday.The suspect, who also faces a charge of desecration of a place of worship, has already left Japan for Hong Kong. He is accused of writing Chinese characters meaning "toilet" on a stone pillar of the Tokyo shrine using a black felt-tip pen shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18.The suspect was caught on a security camera climbing onto the pedestal of the stone pillar on the evening of that day an…READ FULL ARTICLE