Officers arrested a man who threw a bottle with flammable liquid toward a Bank of China branch near Tokyo in apparent retaliation for violent anti-Japanese rallies in China. Nobody was injured, and the attack caused only minor damage, police and reports said.
The 40-year-old man, who claimed to be an ultra-rightwing activist, was arrested by patrolling officers on the spot after he threw the liquid-filled bottle at the bank entrance, a Yokohama prefectural police spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
The bank is in the Yokohama area, which holds Japan's largest Chinatown.
Police declined to specify if the bottle's contents were on fire. Public broadcaster NHK said the liquid was flaming, but that it caused only a minor burn mark on the ground in front of the bank.
Police did not immediately link the incident to a recent wave of anti-Japanese protests in China, but officers reportedly stepped up patrols in the area after a metal pellet pierced a window at the same bank about 10 days ago.
NHK said the man told police he threw the bottle there knowing that the bank is Chinese.
Meanwhile, the head of Japan's national Public Safety Commission on Tuesday urged the nation's police to be on high alert to prevent attacks on facilities linked to China.
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