China has informed Japan that it will execute four Japanese nationals for drug-smuggling, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada revealed Friday, expressing concern over how the killings will impact public sentiment.
It was reported earlier this week that China planned to execute one Japanese man convicted of drug-running, possibly next Monday.
Japan established diplomatic relations with China in 1972, and at least from that point on no Japanese had been executed in the country.
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