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Liputan6.com, Beijing: China has informed the Japanese government that his country would soon execute a Japanese citizen on charges of drug smuggling 2.5 kilograms of stimulant drugs to Japan. He was arrested at the airport in Dalian, northeast China in September 2006.

The plan, the execution will be done as quickly as possible, Monday (5 / 4) next week. The execution will be the first since the Japanese diplomatic relations and China in 1972 and normal.

While in Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary said Hirofumi Hirano, Japan is not in a position to comment on what was decided by the judicial system in China, Tuesday (30 / 3). However, he said, his government will convey concerns about the Japanese public sentiment on the death penalty. (NHK / AST / SHA)