🇨🇳❌🇯🇵 — Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa expressed condolences and said it was “extremely regrettable” the student died despite requests for caution and enhanced safety around the time of the anniversary of the start of Imperial Japan’s invasion of China in the 1930s.
➡️ The student was stabbed on Wednesday about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said in a daily briefing. Lin said the attacker was arrested on the spot and the case was still under investigation.
➡️ In a statement released Wednesday, Shenzhen police said a 44-year-old man with the surname Zhong had been taken into custody in connection with a knifing on a minor.
➡️ Kamikawa noted that Japan had asked China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for increased security around Japanese schools ahead of the Sept. 18 anniversary of the Mukden Incident in 1931, which China marks as the beginning of Japanese invasion of Manchuria, now northeast China.
➡️ No motive for the attack was immediately clear, but it is known in Chinese-speaking social media that China-based Patriotic Socialist networks have been organizing and inciting Anti-Japanese feelings in Mainland China
➡️ The student was stabbed on Wednesday about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said in a daily briefing. Lin said the attacker was arrested on the spot and the case was still under investigation.
➡️ In a statement released Wednesday, Shenzhen police said a 44-year-old man with the surname Zhong had been taken into custody in connection with a knifing on a minor.
➡️ Kamikawa noted that Japan had asked China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for increased security around Japanese schools ahead of the Sept. 18 anniversary of the Mukden Incident in 1931, which China marks as the beginning of Japanese invasion of Manchuria, now northeast China.
➡️ No motive for the attack was immediately clear, but it is known in Chinese-speaking social media that China-based Patriotic Socialist networks have been organizing and inciting Anti-Japanese feelings in Mainland China