Man arrested for allegedly detonating explosives
21/11/2008 17:48
Police arrested a man today for allegedly detonating explosives last month
at a cultural hall of Japan's largest lay Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai,
and at a separate building housing a local Japan-China friendship association,
both in the city of Tokushima in Shikoku, the police said.
Takaaki Hori, 35,
a resident of Tokushima, is suspected of placing and detonating explosives in
the entrances of the Soka Gakkai cultural hall in the city and the
Tokushima-China Friendship Association on Oct. 13, Kyodo News Agency
reported.
No one was injured in the blasts, which damaged doors, windows and
ceilings in the buildings.
After the explosions, a document claiming
responsibility for the blasts was found in the entrance of a separate building
housing the publisher of the Tokushima Shimbun newspaper and JRT Shikoku
Broadcasting Co, the police said.
Hori has told investigators that he used
firecrackers to make the explosives at his home and that he took the claim of
responsibility to the press building, they said.
Soka Gakkai is known as the
main base of support for the New Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of
the governing Liberal Democratic Party.
Xinhua
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