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Man in China lands in jail for car stickers endorsing kamikaze fighters

  • One of the stickers featured a slogan over a Japanese flag and the other said ‘kamikaze’ in Chinese
  • There have been high-profile incidents of anti-Japanese sentiment in China recently

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In a separate incident, a car owner was detained for 15 days for decorations that supported Japan’s Unit 731, a notoriously cruel military squadron [bottom image]. Photo: Weibo
Mandy Zuoin Shanghai

A man in China was ordered to be jailed for 12 days and fined 600 yuan (US$93) for placing stickers on his vehicle that appeared to valorise Japanese kamikaze fighters, the WWII squadron that became infamous for purposely crashing their planes into Allied ships.

The man had placed two stickers on the rearview window of his vehicle. The top sticker read “faster than wind” written in kanji overlayed across the Japanese flag. The bottom sticker featured the two Chinese characters that together mean “kamikaze”.

The man, identified by his surname Long, was detained on Saturday after residents in Kaili, in Guizhou province in south China, reported him to the police, according to Jiupai News on the mainland.

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The middle sticker reads “faster than wind” while the bottom is the Chinese word for “kamikaze”. Photo: Weibo
The middle sticker reads “faster than wind” while the bottom is the Chinese word for “kamikaze”. Photo: Weibo
The police said the man created a bad social influence and “disturbed public order” with the stickers. Long was detained for the offence of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, often described as a catch-all offence in Chinese law.
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“This has hurt the ethnic feelings of others and I now realise my mistake,” the man said in a video clip.

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