Tokyo police search SDF base over Chinese Embassy trespassing

A vehicle carrying Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department investigators enters the Ground Self-Defense Force base in Ebino City, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Sunday
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Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on Sunday searched locations related to a Ground Self-Defense Force member accused of trespassing into the Chinese Embassy in the Japanese capital this month, according to informed sources.The locations searched included a GSDF base in the city of Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, where the trespassing suspect, Second Lieutenant Kodai Murata, 23, was stationed.At around 8 a.m., two vehicles carrying MPD investigators entered the GSDF base
According to the Defense Ministry, Murata lived on the base.On Tuesday, Murata was arrested after entering the premises of the Chinese Embassy alone and seeking to meet the Chinese ambassador
Based on his account, an apparent 18-centimeter kitchen knife was found in the bushes on the embassy grounds.According to police sources, he said after his arrest that he planned to ask the ambassador to refrain from making hardline remarks against Japan, and that, if his demand was rejected, he intended to commit suicide with the knife.

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