China is performing a person who stabbed a Japanese school boy

China shot behind the man deadly knife with a 10-year-old Japanese boy Last September, the Japanese embassy in China reported the BBC.

Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for an attack on a boy who went to a Japanese school in the southeastern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

The case sent strike waves on both countries and fueled diplomatic tensions against the allegations that he was a xenophobic attack.

“The Japanese government considers murder a completely innocent child, and we take this shooting with maximum celebration,” the BBC said in a statement.

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

It states that this was reported about the shooting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.

The incident has strengthened the fears of the Japanese living in China and pushed Japanese companies, including Toyota, to ask their employees to take precautions. Others, like Panasonic, offered free flights home.

Sentence in Zhong’s case did not mention JapanJapanese officials had previously said. Kandy Canasuga, Japanese Ambassador to China, said Zhong had asked to talk to the victim’s family but did not say whether he was aimed at Japanese citizens.

The incident also covered uncontrolled nationalism in Chinese social media, which in recent years has fueled anti-foreign sentiments.

The Internet commenters noted that the murder of the schoolboy occurred on a politically sensitive date -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 been obscured by political tensions between China and Japan. China has long demanded forgiveness in Japan for its colonial and military aggression in the early and mid -20th century. He also accused Japan of being in his textbooks in China of his fierce war in history textbooks.

A knife also occurred among a number of high -profile attacks on foreigners in China, including knife four American teachers in Jillin.

Last June is a man attacked the Japanese mother and her baby At the bus stop in Suszhou, but the Chinese woman who was trying to protect them was killed. The man was also shot, Japanese officials said last week.