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 court in the Chinese city of Suzhou ruled that the 52-year-old unemployed man, surnamed Zhou, stabbed the trio after he became indebted and lost interest in living, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday. Details of the ruling were not immediately available through Chinese official announcements or local news reports, but Hayashi said Japan’s Consul General to Shanghai attended the sentencing. “The (Japanese) government considers the killing and wounding of three people, including a completely innocent child, to be unforgivable, and we take the verdict with the utmost seriousness,” Hayashi said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stopped short of confirming the sentencing, saying only that…
