Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu ‘admits charges’ in Japan over Haruka Nakaura domestic abuse
- He will be charged with assault, according to reports, after Japanese police issued arrest warrant
- Japanese model Nakaura had posted photos of her bruises, and said Jiang attacked her with a hammer and kicked her until she miscarried his child
Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu has turned himself in to Japanese police and admitted charges of domestic abuse against Japanese model Haruka Nakaura, Japanese media reported.
Wearing a face mask and hat, Jiang was filmed entering a police station in Tokyo’s Sugamo neighbourhood on Wednesday by TBS News.
“Jiang Jinfu has contacted the Japanese police and is cooperating with the investigation. Please do not spread or create rumours until the investigation is over,” Jiang’s management office wrote on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.
The actor will be charged with assaulting Nakaura, his former girlfriend, according to the Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times. Under Japanese law, Jiang could face a jail term of up to 15 years or a fine of up to 500,000 yen (US$4,400).
Nakaura – known in China as Zhongpu Youhua – had last week posted images of bruises to her face and body on her Instagram account, which has since been deleted. Jiang issued an apology on Weibo in which he admitted the abuse.
In a subsequent post from a new Instagram account, Nakaura then claimed that Jiang had kicked her stomach until she miscarried his child and that her bruises had required two weeks of hospital treatment to heal.