TOKYO: A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death over the fatal stabbing of a Japanese boy in the southern city of Shenzhen, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Friday (Jan 24), citing Japanese ambas

A Chinese court said that Zhou Jiasheng, 52, had carried out the attack on 24 June after he lost the will to live, following the loss of his job and subsequent debts. The attack had taken place outside a Japanese school in the Chinese province of Suzhou - and was one of three attacks on foreigners in China last year.