China Executes Man Who Fatally Stabbed Japanese Boy in Shenzhen

A Chinese man convicted of fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen, southern China, in September 2024, has been executed, a diplomatic source said on April 21.

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TOKYO —

Zhong Changchun was sentenced to death in January for killing the boy — the son of a Japanese father and a Chinese mother — near a Japanese school in the southern city. He did not appeal against the sentence.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry informed the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on April 21 that the man had been executed, according to the source.