Intimidation email sent to Japan's "girl statue exhibition group", man in his 40s arrested = Korean coverage

In Japan, a man in his 40s who sent a threatening email to an exhibition group of girl statues was arrested.

According to the Korean media "Yonhap News Agency", the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a man in his 40s living in Hyogo prefecture on suspicion of sending a threatening email to the organizer of the "Expression Inconvenience Exhibition" scheduled to be held in Tokyo last June.

The suspect is suspected of threatening by sending an e-mail to the members of the "Expression Inconvenience Exhibition" executive committee, which displays a statue of a girl of peace that symbolizes the former comfort women, to the effect of "doing harm."

The Metropolitan Police Department believes that the suspect was dissatisfied with the contents of the exhibition and committed a crime to cancel the event.