A 10-year-old boy attending a Japanese school in southern China has died after being stabbed on his way to class on Wednesday, according to Tokyo’s foreign minister, in the second knife attack near a Japanese school in the country in recent months.
The boy was attacked by a man about 200 meters from the gates of the Japanese school in Shenzhen, a tech-hub metropolis home to many Japanese businesses, according to China’s foreign ministry. A 44-year-old suspect was apprehended at the scene and taken into custody, police in the city said in a statement. Japanese and Chinese authorities did not specify the nationality of the victim. But Japanese nationality is required for enrollment at the Shenzhen Japanese School, according to its website.
But nationalism, xenophobia and anti-Japanese sentiment are on the rise in the country, often fanned by state media. In June, a Chinese man wounded a Japanese woman and her child in a stabbing attack in front of a school bus in Suzhou, eastern China. A Chinese bus attendant who tried to intervene later died of her injuries. Following that attack, Japan’s foreign ministry told Japanese schools to review their safety measures, Kamikawa said.
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