Man Arrested in Japan for Scattering Anti-Olympic Flyers From Subway Train, Reports Suggest © REUTERS / FABRIZIO BENSCH
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TOKYO (Sputnik) - Police have arrested a 59-year-old man in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi for scattering flyers criticising the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games from a subway train, national media reported on 25 July.
Yuji Usui was arrested after allegedly throwing several dozen flyers from the window of a running subway train in the prefecture s capital of Nagoya on Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the sporting event in Tokyo, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing the local police.
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Latyr Sy
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