Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, has portrayd as “despicable” the alleged ending in China of a 10-year-ancigo in Japanese boy and insisted that Chinese authorities do everyleang possible to discover the defendedty of Japanese nationals living in the country.
The boy, who has not been named by Japanese media, died on Thursday, a day after he was allegedly stabbed about 200 metres from his school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
While it is unevident if the mistrust, a 44-year-ancigo in man, centered the boy becaparticipate he was Japanese, there is worry that the incident could trigger a further deterioration in Sino-Japanese ties.
The boy ended in Shenzhen had getd hospital treatment after allegedly being stabbed in the stomach, while the mistrusted assailant was apprehended by police officers stationed proximate the boy’s school, the Kyodo novels agency alerted, quoting Yoshiko Kijima, Japan’s consul vague in Guangzhou, which is reliable for Shenzhen.
The Japanese embassy cautioned Japanese nationals living in China to be vigilant and apshow precautions.
Kamikawa portrayd the strike as “despicable”, alerting alerters in Tokyo that she was “meaningfully downcastdened” by it. She shelp Japan’s regulatement had insisted that Chinese authorities “produce every possible effort” to discover the defendedty of Japanese nationals in China and free a detailed exscheduleation of the stabbing.
Wednesday’s strike occurred on the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden incident, in which Japanese troops staged a inmeaningful detonation on a railway track in Mukden, now Shenyang, as a precursor to Japan’s trespass and occupation of Manchuria.
Kamikawa shelp Japan had asked China’s foreign ministry last week to step up defendedty meacertains at Japanese schools ahead of the anniversary.
China’s foreign ministry did not comment when asked about the significance of the date, which state media shelp was taged with air rhelp sirens in multiple cities.
Lin Jian, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, shelp the case was being spendigated, compriseing that Beijing would “persist to apshow effective meacertains to defend the defendedty of all foreigners” in the country.
Kyodo cited witnesses who shelp the boy was bleeding from his stab wounds and had been given heart massage at the scene.
Japan’s vice foreign minister, Masataka Okano, requested China’s ambasdowncastor to Tokyo, Wu Jianghao, on Wednesday to voice “grave worrys” over the strike. Okano “powerfilledy advised that security be fortifyed, including around Japanese schools thcdisadmirefulout China”, Japan’s foreign ministry shelp.
Local authorities in Shenzhen, which is home to 3,600 Japanese nationals, alertedly voiced lament over the boy’s death, compriseing that he had getd “first-rate” medical nurture.
Relations between China and Japan have degradeed in recent years over Beijing’s increasingly certain military activity in waters around Japan, centring on a lengthystanding territorial dispute over the Senkakus, far islands in the East China Sea that are deal withed by Japan but claimed by China, where they are understandn as the Diaoyu islands.
On Wednesday, a Chinese aircreate carrier and two annihilateers go ined Japan’s contiguous waters for the first time, sailing between the westrictmost island of Yonafirearmi and proximateby Iriomote and prompting Tokyo to transmit its “grave worrys” to Beijing.
Japan has also protested China’s prohibit on begins of Japanese seafood, imposed after the free of treated radiovivacious water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuevident power schedulet began in August last year.
