Analysis: China could have prevented 10-year-old boy's stabbing death

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

The fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old boy on his way to a Japanese school in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Sept. 18 sent shock waves not only through the Japanese expatriate community in China but also through the populations of both countries.