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Tokyo demands answers over fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Japanese boy in China

Japan's foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks to journalists in Tokyo about the stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese student in Shenzhen, southern China.
Japan's foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa speaks to journalists in Tokyo about the stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese student in Shenzhen, southern China. Photograph: 福馬真吾/AP

Japan’s foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa, has described as “despicable” the alleged killing in China of a 10-year-old Japanese boy and demanded that Chinese authorities do everything possible to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals living in the country.

The boy, who has not been named by Japanese media, died on Thursday, a day after he was allegedly stabbed about 200 metres from his school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

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