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.

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.

A Chinese court deemed the death penalty as appropriate in view of the 'extremely heinous' nature of the crime, which resulted in the death of a bus attendant.

Two men have been sentenced to death for separate deadly stabbings in China. One man killed a 10-year-old child outside a school, while another man died after shielding a mother and child from attack on a bus. The killing of the child raised concerns about China's patriotic education system and relations with Japanese nationals.

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death over a knife attack near Shanghai last June that injured a Japanes

The boy, a 10-year-old Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, was stabbed on his way to school on a morning in September last year. He died the following day. The assailant,