JAL Cancels Celebration of 50 Years of Japan-China Flights, Seen as Inappropriate in Wake of Japanese Boy’s Stabbing

Regular flights between Japan and China marked their 50-year anniversary Sunday. Japan Airlines Co. had planned to hold a commemorative ceremony at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, but decided to cancel the event after the fatal stabbing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy in Shenzhen, China, on September 18.