Japan Honors Chinese Woman Who Died Protecting Japanese Mother and Son From Knife Attack in China

Japan has paid tribute to Hu Youping, the Chinese woman who was critically injured while stopping a knife attack on a Japanese mother and son in Suzhou, in China’s Jiangsu Province. On June 27, the Japanese Embassy in China posted on Weibo, a Chinese social media site, mourning Ms. Hu’s death and paying tribute to her righteousness. “We believe that her courage and kindness are also representative of the Chinese public at large,” it read. The embassy also lowered its flag on June 28 at half-mast in her honor. Ms. Hu would have turned 55 on July 27. She was a school bus guide who worked for a Japanese school in Suzhou....