Japan said Wednesday the detentions of its citizens in China are damaging public sentiment toward the neighboring country, after a Beijing court convicted a Japanese businessman of espionage.The issue "has become one of the major obstructive factors for people-to-people exchanges...and improvement of public sentiment," Foreign Ministry spokesman Toshihiro Kitamura told a regular press conference.The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court on the same day sentenced an Astellas Pharma Inc. employee, who was detained in the Chinese capital in March 2023 and formally arrested the following Oc…READ FULL ARTICLE
