A business executive and two others were arrested Thursday for allegedly exporting food and other items to North Korea in violation of the government's export ban, police said.
Yuzuru Yachita, president of a Tokyo-based company, and two others are suspected of shipping around 1,500 boxes of food and other items, worth around ¥7.16 million ($63,500) to North Korea via a Singapore firm, breaching the foreign exchange and foreign trade law, the police said.
Since June 2009, the Japanese government has banned any exports to North Korea as part of economic sanctions following a series of nuclear and ballistic missile tests by Pyongyang.