{"id":542017,"date":"2026-03-24T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542017\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:57:09","slug":"japanese-military-officer-forces-way-into-chinese-embassy-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/542017\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese \u2018military officer\u2019 forces way into Chinese embassy in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Japanese person who claimed to be an active officer of Japan\u2019s Self-Defence Forces illegally and forcibly entered the Chinese embassy in Tokyo, Beijing said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cChina is deeply shocked by this incident and has lodged a strong protest with Japan,\u201d Beijing\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The person admitted to the illegality of their actions and threatened to kill Chinese diplomatic personnel in the name of god, Lin Jian, spokesman for the foreign ministry, told a regular media briefing hours after the incident.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The ministry did not identify the person or their gender.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The nature and impact of the incident were \u201cextremely egregious\u201d, Lin said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt seriously violates the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, severely threatens the personal safety of Chinese diplomatic personnel and the security of diplomatic facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has referred to the \u201cgrowing threat of new militarism\u201d. Photo: Kyodo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cfcf9ea4-0f1b-41fc-9031-8694bb9aa527_8beeb4ac.jpg\" title=\"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has referred to the \u201cgrowing threat of new militarism\u201d. Photo: Kyodo\"\/>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has referred to the \u201cgrowing threat of new militarism\u201d. Photo: Kyodo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Japanese person who claimed to be an active officer of Japan\u2019s Self-Defence Forces illegally and forcibly entered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550,4,450,144,8192,42021,242431,451,3471,242430,6259,237203,131084,3,17205,452,453,242432],"class_list":["post-542017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-beijing","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-embassy","tag-diplomatic-facilities","tag-headlines","tag-japan","tag-japans-self-defence-forces","tag-japanese","tag-lin-jian","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-news","tag-tokyo","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vienna-convention-on-diplomatic-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}