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# Police Arrest Suspect for Alleged Arson Threat to Exhibition
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/police-arrest-suspect-for-alleged-arson-threat-to-exhibition/
- Published: 2019-08-09T18:28:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:46:49.000Z
- Description: | Police arrested a man suspected of making an arson threat against the Aichi Triennale, the Japan Times reported. “I will bring a gasoline container to the museum,” the threatening fax read, referencing a controversial, life-size sculpture of a "comfort woman." Hotta was apprehended after security
- Author: News Update
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

| Police arrested a man suspected of making an arson threat against the Aichi Triennale, the *Japan* *Times* reported. “I will bring a gasoline container to the museum,” the threatening fax read, referencing a controversial, life-size sculpture of a “comfort woman.” Hotta was apprehended after security camera footage at a convenience store showed him using a fax machine on August 2, the same day the handwritten threat was faxed to the triennial organizers. Read the full story [**here**](https://hyperallergic.com/freedom-of-speech-aichi-triennial/).