Following the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy at a Shenzhen school, Japan has dispatched a high-ranking official to Beijing for urgent talks. The attack has heightened tensions between the two nations.
From Sunday to Tuesday, Japan 's state minister for foreign affairs Yoshifumi Tsuge will visit Beijing"to deal with the death of a child at Shenzhen Japan ese School", the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Beijing expressed"regret and sadness" for what it called an isolated incident that"could happen in any country".Japan's foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa is also arranging to meet her Chinese counterpart in New York while they are both visiting the United States, according to public broadcaster NHK.
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