Xue Jian, China's Consul-General in Osaka, called Japan the 'world champion of anti-China sentiment' and urged Japan to see China as a partner. Because he had earlier posted that PM Takaichi's 'dirty neck' would be cut off, the remark drew heavy backlash and renewed calls to expel him.
Police re-arrested a 32-year-old American man on suspicion of setting fire to a hotel in Chatan, Okinawa in the early hours of 15 August and trying to kill the guests inside; a man in his fifties from Osaka was carried out unconscious and is still being treated. On the same day, Osaka police released the photograph of a Vietnamese man wanted over a June robbery and attempted murder in an underground shopping street. Both are at the suspicion stage, and the threads treated them as one story about whether foreign suspects get charged at all.
Two Vietnamese suspects were arrested over a stabbing-robbery in Osaka's Abechika underground mall, and a separate stolen-fruit livestream case surfaced; netizens debated public safety, deportation, and unfair stigma.
A Korean-national woman in Osaka was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for dropping a flowerpot from a 6th-floor apartment, landing right beside a passerby — but prosecutors reportedly declined to indict. 'She admitted it, so why no charges?' became the rallying line, with anger at the justice system quickly merging into Japan's broader debate over foreign residents.