Some Japanese companies in China have offered to send their staff and their families back home after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, a Japanese executive and employees of Japanese firms in Beijing said on Friday.

The attacker who stabbed a student from a Japanese school in Shenzhen was found to have a criminal record. The investigation of the stabbing incident revealed that it was an isolated case, and further investigation is ongoing,

Chinese media have reported details of the suspect arrested in the stabbing murder of a Japanese child in Shenzhen. China Daily reported that the

BEIJING/SHENZHEN -- A 10-year-old boy stabbed in Shenzhen on his way to a Japanese school has died, Japan's government said on Thursday, confirming the worst fears about an attack that has heightened anxiety across the Japanese community in China.

One by one, they laid flowers at the gate of a Japanese school in Shenzhen, which was strikingly quiet even as nearby streets filled with children heading home from class.

The assault echoes an earlier incident of violence in June, when a man attacked a bus used by a Japanese school in Suzhou, China.

A 10-year-old Japanese student was stabbed near his school in Shenzhen, China, and has died, officials said, despite Tokyo's requests for enhanced safety.