Japan's ambassador to Beijing has asked for more security for Japanese nationals in China after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was killed this week in a knife attack that was the second to target school students.

The child died early on Sept 19 morning after being stabbed on his way to school. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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.

Some of Japan’s biggest companies urged the protection of employees in China, following the fatal stabbing in the mainland of a young Japanese boy.

Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio is seeking an explanation from China about the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old

Some Japanese companies in China have offered to send their staff and their families back home after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, a Japanese executive and employees of Japanese firms in Beijing said on Friday.

Information about the sensitive case is tightly controlled by Chinese police, media and internet censors The man accused of stabbing a Japanese boy on the way to school in Shenzhen this week has a criminal record and no steady employment,

On Wednesday, a 10-year-old boy of Japanese origin was suddenly attacked with a knife by a 44-year-old Chinese man near the Shenzhen Japanese School in southern China. The Japanese boy succumbed to his injuries on Thursday.

About 50 Chinese residents in Japan and others held a vigil here on Sept. 19 for a boy who was stabbed to death on his way to a Japanese scho･･･