A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China. The sentence for the knife attack in the southern city of Shenzhen in September was handed down on Friday, according to Japanese media reports.
The case was one of two knife attacks targeting Japanese nationals in China last year. In September, a 10-year-old Japanese student was fatally stabbed near his school in Shenzhen. The trial of the alleged perpetrator in that case only just began.
A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for a knife attack near Shanghai which left a Chinese bus attendant dead and a Japanese mother and child injured. The attack in June highlighted tensions between China and Japan amid fears of rising anti-Japanese sentiment.
A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.
BEIJING--A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese government official.
A Chinese man who wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack in June last year, has been sentenced to death, CNN reported, citing a Japanese official.
Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant while trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death. Zhou Jiasheng carried out the attack due to his financial debts and his desire to end his own life.
Two separate courts in China have handed down death sentences to Chinese nationals convicted of brutal knife attacks on Japanese citizens. The incidents, which occurred in 2023, have drawn international attention and fueled concerns among Japanese expatriates in China.
He said officials from the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai were present at the court sentencing. The stabbing occurred at a bus stop for a Japanese school in Suzhou on June 24.
A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old to death for a knife attack that injured a Japanese mother and her young child and killed a bus attendant near Shanghai last June. The attack ...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to ...