Podcast [English World] Episode 79: Stabbing in Shenzhen

How do you combat discrimination and prejudice?

Three Kyodo News reporters — Junko Horiuchi, Eduardo Martinez and Maya Kaneko, Beijing correspondent — discuss the fatal stabbing by a Chinese man of a 10-year-old boy, son of a Japanese father and Chinese mother, in Shenzhen, southern China, in September. Listen to Maya Kaneko explain how it affected the Japanese community in China, and how to tackle cultural prejudice.

Article mentioned in the podcast:

Chinese man indicted over fatal stabbing of Japanese boy: Japan gov’t

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing and how to translate tricky Japanese phrases into English. Have fun listening to journalists discuss recent articles as they occasionally go off on unrelated tangents.

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