Seoul: A Chinese man who reportedly said his grandmother was one of many thousands forced into prostitution for the Japanese Army during World War Two was arrested on Sunday for a firebomb attack at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, police said.
The 37-year-old man, identified by his family name Liu, hurled four petrol bombs at the embassy building in central Seoul on Sunday morning, scorching an outer part of the wall, a Seoul police officer said.
There were no reports of injuries.
Police were questioning Liu, a resident of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, who entered the country on a tourist visa via Japan late last month, to determine the reasons behind the attack, the officer said.
The Yonhap news agency said the man had told investigators that his grandmother had served as a "comfort woman" for Japanese troops and that he had staged the attack in protest against Japan`s wartime atrocities.
