Man detained for truck attackBERLIN — German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have detained a Tunisian man they think may have been involved in last week’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin.The 40-year-old, who wasn’t identified, was detained in Berlin during a search of his home and business, federal prosecutors said.The man’s telephone number was saved in the cell phone of Anis Amri, a fellow Tunisian believed to have driven a truck into the market on Dec. 19. Amri, 24, was killed in a shootout with Italian police in a suburb of Milan early Friday.Of the new suspect, prosecutors said in a statement that “further investigations indicate that he may have been involved in the attack.”Twelve people died and dozens more were injured in the truck attack. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.Prosecutors have until this evening to determine whether the case against the 40-year-old is strong enough for them to seek a formal arrest warrant. That would allow them to keep him in custody pending possible charges.Investigators are trying to determine whether Amri had a support network in planning and carrying out the attack, and in fleeing Berlin. They’re also trying to piece together the route he took from Berlin to Milan.

War shrine visit draws rebukesTOKYO — Japan’s Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, just back from Pearl Harbor, today visited a Tokyo shrine that honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals.The visit, and one by another Cabinet minister the day before, drew rebukes from neighboring South Korea and China.Inada accompanied Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit this week to Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor, where he offered condolences to those who died in the Japanese attack there in 1941.Japan’s Asian neighbors harbor bitter memories of the country’s atrocities before and during World War II, when it colonized or invaded much of the region. So visits by top Japanese leaders to the shrine often draw complaints from countries such as China and South Korea that see them as attempts to whitewash that history of wartime aggression.