A Chinese origin Japanese woman who was detained in Shanghai in June 2015 and sentenced in December 2018 by the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court to six years in prison for spying has been released after serving the six-year prison sentence in Shanghai. The woman was, at the time, an executive of a Tokyo-based Japanese language school.

(Comment: Since 2015, more than 10 Japanese citizens were detained in China on various charges, including espionage.)