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Right-winger severed finger in protest to Abe absence at Yasukuni
Okayama Prefectural Police arrested a right-wing group member Thursday on charge of intimidation after the man sent a severed finger to the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and gave himself up to the police, Kyodo News reports.
The 54-year-old man admitted to police he had severed his left fifth finger and sent it together with a letter of protest and a DVD showing the cutting of the finger to the LDP as a protest against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s absence at the Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II on August 15. Only one member of Abe’s Cabinet, Sanae Takaichi, Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs visited the shrine that day.
The suspect told police he had severed his finger because he thought his protest would be ignored otherwise.
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