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,

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.

Chinese media have reported details of the suspect arrested in the stabbing murder of a Japanese child in Shenzhen. China Daily reported that the man, surnamed Zhong, is 44 years old and without a steady job.