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Nikkei Asia
21-07-2025
- Nikkei Asia
China urged Astellas employee to take plea bargain on spy charge: source
An employee of Japan's Astellas Pharma was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Beijing court on July 16. © Kyodo YUKIO TAJIMA BEIJING -- Chinese authorities encouraged a detained Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to confess to espionage charges in exchange for a reduced sentence, a source told Nikkei. The Astellas employee was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison by a Beijing court. According to a source familiar with the case, the court ruled that he had passed on Chinese internal information at the request of Japanese intelligence in return for compensation, which constituted espionage.
Nikkei Asia
10-07-2025
- Nikkei Asia
Panda diplomacy softens sharp edge of China's foreign policy
A panda at the Adventure World amusement park in Japan. The facility's four pandas returned to China at the end of June. © Kyodo YUKIO TAJIMA BEIJING -- When all four of the pandas at Adventure World amusement park in Shirahama, Japan, were sent back to China, the local community was overwhelmed with a sense of "panda loss." It was late June when the pandas left the park in Wakayama prefecture, heading home to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China's southwestern province of Sichuan. About a week before the pandas returned, the facility was bustling with tourists.
