Three employees of the Japanese company Marubeni have been detained on suspicion of smuggling in China in an apparent investigation into tax payments on imported soybeans.
The detention of the three Chinese nationals in Shandong Province came to light on the same day that Mitsui OSK, the Japanese shipping group, agreed to pay Y4bn to secure the release of a container ship impounded by a Chinese court in a wartime compensation dispute.
The container ship case had raised concerns that tensions between China and Japan are spilling into the commercial realm.
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