Beijing, Dec 1, 2025 (AFP) - Chinese fans lambast Brighton over Imperial Japan soldier post

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2025-12-01

Chinese football fans have condemned Brighton and the Premier League side's Japanese winger Kaoru Mitoma after a social media post showed him smiling and holding an image of the last Japanese soldier to surrender in World War II. Millions of Chinese were killed during the brutal fight against Imperial Japanese forces, whose record of massacre, rape and looting still strains relations between Beijing and Tokyo. Brighton & Hove Albion's academy ap......

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