China executes 3 more Japanese for drug smuggling - dnaindia.com

China executes 3 more Japanese for drug smuggling - dnaindia.com: "three Japanese who were put to death in Liaoning included Teruo Takeda, 67, who was convicted of buying about 5 kg of methamphetamine in China in 2003 and instructing another Japanese to take the drugs out of China, Xinhua said. The two others were 48-year-old Hironori Ukai and 67-year-old Katsuo Mori, it said.
While relations have improved of late, the two countries regularly clash over Japan's wartime past in China and various territorial disputes.
Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama is likely to express concern about the executions in possible bilateral talks with President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of a summit on nuclear security in Washington next week, Japanese media said on Friday.
In December, China executed a Briton, also for drug smuggling, prompting a British outcry over what it said was the lack of any mental health assessment.
China has executed other foreign nationals for drug offences. It recently executed an Afghan citizen, and there are Nigerians and Filipinos on death row."

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