HONG KONG -- The stabbing death of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen at the hands of a Chinese stranger is straining an already tense bilateral relationship, although the assailant's motive is not known.
Yoshiko Kijima, the Japanese consul general in Guangzhou, confirmed Thursday morning that the boy had died before sunrise, despite emergency treatment at a local hospital. She said the child had been stabbed in his abdomen the previous morning while walking to a Japanese school with his mother.
