Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said Monday she will meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.
In the wake of the stabbing death of a Japanese schoolboy in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen last week, Japan will demand China clarify the facts and provide detailed information about the case, Kamikawa told reporters before leaving Haneda airport.
The 10-year-old boy, whose father is Japanese and mother Chinese, died Thursday after he was stabbed in the abdomen on his way to school. The male suspect was apprehended by police stationed near the educational facility.
Photo taken in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Sept. 19, 2024, shows the location where a 10-year-old boy, who died the same day, was stabbed by a man while on his way to a Japanese school on Sept. 18. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
The meeting between Kamikawa and Wang also comes after China recently agreed to lift its ban on Japanese seafood imports, contingent on third-party nations, including itself, participating in monitoring the discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.
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