Japan confirms arrest of soldier after China protests over alleged break-in at its embassy in Tokyo

TOKYO — Authorities in Japan confirmed Wednesday they arrested a Japanese army soldier on suspicion of trespass, a day after China protested over an alleged break-in at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. The case, the latest point of friction in an escalating spat between Japan and China , surfaced Tuesday after Beijing protested to Tokyo. An individual who claimed to be a Japan Self-Defense Forces officer scaled the wall and forced his way into the embassy compound on Tuesday morning, Lin Jian, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said in a news conference in Beijing. The Tokyo police on Wednesday told The Associated Press that they arrested a 23-year-old member of the Ground Self-Defense Force, or Japan's army, in the alleged trespassing into the Chinese embassy on Tuesday. The GSDF confirmed the suspect is a soldier based at the Camp Ebino, in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki, and that officials are “fully cooperating” with police. The suspect forced his way into the embassy to tell the Chinese ambassador to stop China's hardline stance on Japan and threatened to kill h

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