Japanese police issue arrest warrant for actor Jiang Jinfu over abuse claims
TOKYO: Police in Japan have issued an arrest warrant for Chinese actor Jiang Jinfu after he admitted to beating his Japanese former girlfriend.
Haruka Nakaura – a model who is known in China as Zhongpu Youhua – has reported her injuries to the police, according to Japanese media. She said her injuries were so severe that hospital treatment took two weeks.
“The house was full of blood. He would hit me until he didn’t have the strength any more, then he would kick me. I thought I was going to be killed,” Nakaura said in an interview with Japanese television show Vivit on Tuesday.
“He knocked out two of my teeth, and when it was particularly bad he used a hammer.”
Jiang, 27, has not yet responded to those latest claims, and his whereabouts are unknown.
But when Nakaura first made allegations against him on Chinese social media on Monday last week, Jiang replied to her in a public confession on Weibo, saying “I should not have hit you”.
Nakaura had posted photos of bruises to her face, arms and body on her Instagram account, which has since been deleted. “I’ve recently made those who care about me worried – but I’m alive,” she wrote in the caption. “Jiang Jinfu’s disappearance is indeed related to me but I can’t say more at the request of my lawyer and the investigators.”
The next day Jiang wrote on microblogging site Weibo: “I spent the past month in regret. My impulsive behaviour has hurt you and your family, and I should not have hit you no matter the reason.”