Japan has criticized a Chinese memorial dedicated to a Korean, who assassinated its first leader over a century ago, branding him a terrorist.
Ahn Jung-geun shot and killed Japan's first Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito on the then-Japan-occupied Korean Peninsula in 1909, at a railway station in the northeast city of Harbin.
Japan has said the opening of the memorial at the Harbin Railway Station seem to be a coordinated move by China and South Korea, and will not be conducive to building peace and stability in the region, the Japan Times reports.
Japanese forces hanged Ahn the very next year, after Korea also formally came under their colonial rule.
Ahn is viewed as a hero in South Korea for his resistance against Japanese rule.
