I hope they give this guy some serous jail time because if not this will just encourage other nut jobs to do the same thing. I think this should be considered attempted murder because someone could have been killed by this bomb:
This file photo shows a South Korean man, identified only by his surname Chon, who has been indicted over the suspected bombing last year of a public restroom at a Tokyo war shrine. In his first court hearing at the Tokyo District Court on June 14, 2016, Chon admitted to his involvement in the bombing, news reports said. (Yonhap)
A South Korean man admitted Tuesday to his involvement in the suspected bombing last year of a public restroom at a Tokyo war shrine in his first court hearing at the Tokyo District Court, news reports said.
The 28-year-old suspect, identified only by his surname Chon, has been indicted on charges of breaking into the premises of Yasukuni Shrine on Nov. 23 and bombing the public restroom.
Chon was arrested in December shortly after voluntarily returning to Tokyo by plane.
In Tuesday’s hearing, prosecutors said Chon attempted to install an explosive device with a digital timer at the main hall of the shrine out of his discontent over the war-linked shrine that honors Japanese wartime leaders who were convicted as war criminals.
But he put it in the restroom instead after failing to do so due to tight security, they said.
Chon’s defense counsel reportedly asked the court to give him a reduced penalty as the incident is not a grave one as no one was injured and he has no chance of repeating the offense as he will find it difficult to enter Japan again down the road. [Yonhap]
You can read the rest at the link, but the other nut jobs the anti-Korean activist group, Zaitokukai showed up to the hearing to protest against Chon and had a lot of bad things to say about Koreans in general.
