2 Japanese men killed in northern China in business dispute, police say

BEIJING: Two Japanese men had been killed final month in the Chinese port metropolis of Dalian due to a dispute with a Chinese business accomplice, police stated Tuesday.The accomplice, a 42-year-old man surnamed Yuan, was arrested May 24, sooner or later after the killings had been reported to Dalian police.Yuan is a long-time resident of Japan and did business with the victims in that nation and the Japanese men had been visiting China, a Chinese police assertion stated.The police assertion didn’t say what the dispute was about or how the victims had been killed.Two stabbing assaults on Japanese schoolchildren final 12 months have raised concern amongst Japanese about travelling to and dwelling in China. In one case, a 10-year-old boy died, and in the opposite, a Chinese attendant on a faculty bus was killed after she tried to stop the assailant from getting on the bus.Dalian, as soon as often known as Port Arthur to westerners, was a Russian naval base that was taken by Japan in the course of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.