China sentences man behind knife attack on Japanese mother and child to death
A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.
Japan spokesperson comments on death sentence for school bus attacker in China
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa has commented on the death sentence in China handed down to a man charged in connection with a knife attack on a bus carrying Japanese schoolchildren.
China hands death sentence to man who killed Japanese boy
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China. The sentence for the knife attack in the southern city of Shenzhen in September was handed down on Friday, according to Japanese media reports.
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Chinese man who stabbed Japanese women and her son sentenced to death
A Chinese man who wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack in June last year, has been sentenced to death, CNN reported, citing a Japanese official.
Chinese court sentences man to death over knife attack at a Japanese school bus stop
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese government official.
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Chinese Man Sentenced to Death for Fatally Stabbing 10-Year-Old Japanese Schoolboy
A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy marking one of several recent high-profile cases of violent attacks on foreigners in China.
China’s population falls by almost 1.4 million, a third consecutive year of decline
China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 billion. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan’s population has been falling for 15 years, while South Korea’s growth turned negative in 2021. In Italy, the number of births has fallen below 400,000 for the first time since the 19th century.
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More countries, including China, are grappling with shrinking and aging populations
China said Friday that its population fell ... The Japanese government’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, called the demographic situation critical last year, saying that the next ...
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China hands death sentence to man who killed Japanese boy
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters at a press conference ... Earlier on Thursday, Mao Ning, spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, briefly commented in a daily press ...
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Chinese court sentences man to death over knife attack at a Japanese school bus stop
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters in Tokyo on Thursday. The case was one of two stabbing attacks on Japanese children in China last year that raised concerns about increased ...
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China hands death sentence to man who killed Japanese boy
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters at a press conference that the ... Earlier on Thursday, Mao Ning, spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, briefly commented in a daily press conference that the case was "in judicial process ...
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Rebels kill 13 foreign peacekeepers in DR Congo
Thirteen soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in clashes with rebels from the M23 group. The South African military said nine of its soldiers died helping to push back a rebel advance on the city of Goma,