A Japanese businessman has been sentenced to three and a half years in China for espionage, Japan’s embassy in Beijing has said. The man, described by Japan’s Kyodo News Agency as an employee ...

A Chinese court said he had been paid to provide information on China's politics and economy to intelligence agencies.

A version of this article appears in print on June 9, 2025, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Missile-Ready Japan Flexes Its Military Muscle at China, and Trump.