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China/ People & Culture

Chinese man who led wedding party dressed as Japanese solider ‘had been filming patriotic video and didn’t have time to change’

Man apologises for ‘misunderstanding’ after his stunt triggers nationalist backlash

Liu Bin was filmed leading a wedding parade dressed as an imperial Japanese soldier. Photo: Sina

A man in northern China has triggered a nationalist backlash after he was pictured leading a wedding motorcade dressed as a second world war Japanese solider – just weeks after a law that would criminalise such actions came into effect.

The man, identified as Liu Bin, has since apologised for his actions and insisted in a videoed apology that he and his friends had been filming a patriotic anti-Japanese series of films to be shared online and did not have time to change before joining the wedding party.