Chinese “spy” was making a living in the Japanese real estate
The 45-year-old diplomat who worked for the Chinese embassy in Tokyo earned about Y300,000 ($5,000) a month from renting apartments in a residential building he had bought in Chiba.
Li Chunguang, the diplomat whose official position was first secretary of the Chinese embassy, purchased last year a two-story apartment building in Hanamigawa Ward, Chiba, for which he paid around Y40 million. He worked with a local real estate agency for the transaction. According to the sources, the tenants are mainly Chinese.
Li Chunguang reportedly also bought a condominium in the city’s Chuo Ward for about Y12 million, through the same agency. He was renting the place to a Japanese woman.