The tragic stabbing death of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen, China, has elicited widespread concern and highlighted the fragile state of Japan-China relations. The boy was attacked while walking to school with his mother, succumbing to injuries inflicted by a stranger. This incident not only raises alarm about the safety of foreign nationals in China but also ignites fears regarding anti-Japanese sentiment within the country. The assailant, a 44-year-old man, has been apprehended; however, the motive remains unclear .
The boy, who was enrolled at the Shenzhen Japanese School, succumbed to his injuries early on Thursday, Japanese officials said.
His assailant, a 44-year-old man surnamed Zhong, was arrested on the spot, local police said.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has called the attack "extremely despicable" and said Tokyo had "strongly urged" Beijing for an explanation "as soon as possible".
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said the case was being investigated and that China and Japan were "in communication".
"China expresses its regret and sadness that this kind of unfortunate incident occurred," he told reporters at a news conference on Thursday.
The boy’s father is a Japanese citizen, while his mother is a Chinese citizen, said Lin Jian, spokesman of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He told a news briefing on Thursday that the attack was an “individual” case and that “China and Japan are in communication on the case”.
“I take the incident extremely seriously,” Kamikawa said. “This should never happen in any country. Particularly, I sincerely regret that this despicable act was committed against a child on their way to school.”
Relations between China and Japan have worsened in recent years over Beijing’s increasingly assertive military activity in waters around Japan, centring on a longstanding territorial dispute over the Senkakus, remote islands in the East China Sea that are administered by Japan but claimed by China, where they are known as the Diaoyu islands.
On Wednesday, a Chinese aircraft carrier and two destroyers entered Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time, sailing between the westernmost island of Yonaguni and nearby Iriomote and prompting Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing.
Japan has also protested China’s ban on imports of Japanese seafood, imposed after the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began in August last year.
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