China executes man who stabbed Japanese school boy

China has carried out a fatal man A 10 -year -old Japanese boy stabbed Last September, the Japanese embassy in China BBC was told.

Chong Changson was sentenced to death in January for attacking the boy, who was walking to a Japanese school in the southeastern China China Chentchen.

The case had sent a shock through both countries and nurtured diplomatic tensions amid allegations that it was an attack by foreigners.

The Japanese embassy said in its statement to the BBC: “The government of Japan considers that killing a completely innocent child to be an unforgivable crime, and we take this death with the utmost seriousness,” the Japanese embassy said in its statement to the BBC.

“In light of this incident, the Japanese government will continue to take all possible safety measures and urge the Chinese side to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens in China.”

He said he was informed of the execution of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The incident increased the concerns between the Japanese who live in China and pay Japanese companies, including Toyota, to demand their employees to take precautions. Others, like Panasonic, have provided free flights to employees.

Judgment on the Chong issue Japan did not mentionJapanese officials said previously. Kenji Kanasogi, the Japanese ambassador to China, said that Chong asked to speak to the victim’s family, but he did not say whether he was targeting Japanese citizens.

This incident also shed light on the unrestricted nationalism on Chinese social media, which has fueled the anti -foreigner morale in recent years.

Online commentators indicated that the killing of a student occurred in a political sensitive history – September 18, the anniversary of the incident that led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in China in the early 1930s.

Historical grievances have long overwhelmed political tensions between China and Japan. China has long demanded an apology from Japan for its colonial aggression and the time of war in the early twentieth century. Japan also accused of hinting on its brutal military actions in China in its school books.

The appeal also came amid a series of prominent attacks on foreigners in China, including Four American teachers stabbed in two generations.

Last June, a man She attacked a Japanese mother and her child At a bus station in Suzu, it ended with the killing of a Chinese woman trying to protect her. The man was also executed, Japanese officials said last week.