A man was sentenced Wednesday by the Osaka District Court for three years in prison and five years in prison for damaging a building belonging to an international school in Osaka Prefecture, a crime that is widely seen as a hate crime.
The Osaka court found Makoto Tachikawa, 30, guilty of trespassing into the Korea International School, attended by students including Korean residents in Japan, in April, and setting a floor of its building on fire.
In the same trial, Tachikawa was also found guilty of breaking into the office of Kiyomi Tsujimoto, a Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker, in March, as well as into a facility of Japan's largest lay Buddhist group Soka Gakkai in May. Both facilities were located in Osaka Prefecture.
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