International relationsTokyo police suspect Chinese military behind cyberattacks
Case filed against Chinese Communist Party member engineer in Japan
Police allege the suspect rented a number of computer servers and may have hacked into Japan's JAXA space agency. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)
Nikkei staff writers
April 20, 2021 09:32 JST
Updated on April 20, 2021 13:39 JST
TOKYO -- Tokyo Metropolitan Police filed a case on Tuesday against an engineer, who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, for allegedly taking part in cyberattacks that targeted Japan's space agency JAXA and about 200 other Japanese companies and research institutions.