China confirms Japanese citizen indicted on suspicion of espionage

Feel sorry for the guy arrested, but looking forward to all the politicians in Japan demanding "justice" from China. One hostage justice country to another.

Easy fix...Don't go to China?

Easier fix…arrest and indict a Chinese company employee stationed in Japan on espionage charge and then exchange him for the Japanese citizen detained in China. Like the US and Russia did recently.

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China confirms citizen indicted on suspicion of being Japanese

As others are stating, this is a 100% political charge.

China does not have Rule of Law. ALL Japanese businesses should remove themselves totally from China. No sympathy for Japanese businesses having their executives arrested there I'm afraid - and there will be many, many more.

As others are stating, this is a 100% political charge.

Wow! That's an amazing level of confidence from a small group of people who have f-all idea about what's actually going on in this case.

Fact: Spying goes on all the time between major powers. Adopting a low-key cover at a pharmaceutical company is one of numerous possible cover stories. In this case, I don't know if the individual is guilty or not, and I'm damn certain no other posters on this website are any more in the loop. Gossipy online fantasizing is one of the major forces dragging this world down the toilet. How about getting another hobby, boys & girls??

"espionage", they're stealing company's secret to make their own drugs.

In other words "China is a country with NO RULE OF LAW, the CCP makes rules as they see fit. China does not investigate ANYTHING they fabricate things as the CCP feels that go against their ideology. If anything the CCP engages in illegal activities as a rule of law Mao should make note of that. LMFAO "At no time does (China) safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of ANYONE, if you are in China at anytime you can be framed with no thoughts of human rights or legal protections. What a wipe arse country with backwards thinking I feel sorry for the chinese people. It would be nice to see them over throw the CCP if that happens only then will the Chinese people live a peaceful and happy life.

"China is a country with the rule of law, that investigates and deals with law-breaking and illegal activities in accordance with the law," Mao said.

"At the same time (China) safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of the people involved, and facilitates the duties of Japanese consular officials stationed in China," she said.

You know the rule: Don't trust China. China is あそう！

let him go and let him sit at home on the island. He will no longer engage in espionage. He is no longer interesting.

Totalitarian state with totally repressive authoritarian rules, ruthlessly and obsessively controlling the lives of 1 in 5 people on this planet - total disgrace, no other way to describe the dump that is China today.

Never go there, never buy anything from there, til they learn a very big lesson - how to behave reasonably and congenially towards their citizens and their neighbours, and to cut-out their spying and eavesdropping nonsense, and their constant threats to their neighbours.

Tit for tat, arrest a visiting business Chinese individual and see what happens. All businesses should pull out of China's factories and not on a slow scale as it is happening now, faster. Japan needs to block Chinese who are not living in Japan from buying investment property in Japan, and any Chinese owners not living in Japan be forced to sell their properties and scaling down all ties with China.

Fact: Spying goes on all the time between major powers.

That is true, but it would be highly unusually to conduct the operation via a big corporation. In particular one in an industry that deals with gov't regulators all the time.

Interesting side note, most Western Medical device providers will NOT certify in Hong Kong or China because you're required to provide the gov't with detailed information about the manufacturing process, along with the actual devices. They'll hand the device and info off to a local bio med company while they hold up your approval. You'll get through as soon as a local competitor has a knock off made.

Because of this, medicine in mainland China is a joke compared to the west.

And then they wonder why companies don't want to do business there.

This is no surprise really. Japan has been copying China for literally ages. Using fake businesses as fronts is common play. Espionage is a big problem domestically in Japan with so many companies spying on one another. The comments in the article are quite opaque. Perhaps he was guilty of spying on something other than technology, military or political targets. For all we know he was spying on superior Chinese news dissemination techniques. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. Hoping for follow-up reports.

Poor men probably innocent and just being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

As if there aren't enough reasons not to go to China. There is no assurance that, even as a tourist, you will be coming home on schedule.

Japanese companies won’t leave China in any significant number as the pool of cheap first class talent is just too tempting.

Half their own fault for going to a dicatorship like china.

70% chance of the charges being actual lies.

They couldnt pay me to even consider going there for a holiday.

"China confirms Japanese citizen indicted on suspicion of espionage."

Too bad I can't imagine what this man and his family is going through. But unfortunately, this is a good wakeup call for Japanese businesses to rethink their political and businesses strategies. When you have a Junta accusing and locking a business on price gorging. And now another business man locked in based on a broad based espionage charges. Is this the new normal? The Democrats Kamala want to introduce Federal law against price gorging forget that States have their own laws on gorging usually in case of emergencies. If the federal government gets involved it won't fair better than the Junta Myanmar.

"........ the rights of the people in the case would be protected..."

Well, they would say that wouldn't they? And of course the usual half-day trial will be fully transparent?