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.

Chinese media have reported details of the suspect arrested in the stabbing murder of a Japanese child in Shenzhen. China Daily reported that the

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･･･

A 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed near a school in Shenzhen, China. The boy's father is Japanese and his mother is Chinese. The Chinese foreign ministry has stated the attack was an individual case and is in communication with Japan regarding the incident.

The 10-year-old was stabbed in Shenzhen during his commute to school.

In a call with China’s vice-foreign minister Sun Weidong on Thursday, Japan’s ambassador Kenji Kanasugi “strongly urged” Beijing to share detailed information about the incident, which was the second targeted attack on Japanese schoolchildren in China in recent months.