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.

Japan has formally requested that China provide a comprehensive explanation regarding the circumstances of the attack in which a 10-year-old boy enrolled at a Japanese school in the Chinese city of Shenzhen was stabbed to death by a 44-year-old assailant.

Japanese firms said some big firms in China have given Japanese employees and their families the option to be relocated home at the company’s expense, or are considering doing so

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 has demanded an explanation from Beijing over the fatal stabbing of a schoolboy in the second knife attack on Japanese children in China in months.

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･･･