Hu Youping, a bus attendant, tried to restrain an assailant at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.

A Chinese woman who tried to shield a Japanese mother and her child from a knife attack has died.

Hu Youping was working as a school bus attendant in Suzhou city when a man attacked a Japanese woman and her child at a bus stop outside a Japanese school.

She suffered serious injuries while trying to restrain him.

Tributes for her have poured out online and the local government has said she will be given the title of “Righteous and Courageous Role Model”.

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    4 months ago

    Every one of these cases is a failure of a society as a whole, may it big or small. Maybe it’s an edge case, or a person with a mental condition whose actions we missed a chance to counteract in time. But from what I hear I can assume chinese propaganda encourages nationalistic feelings and some kind of a new chinese identity to keep their social fabric intact and productive, patriotic, and it seems that this person may as well be a byproduct of that. They have a personal responsibility for what they did, but killing them off wouldn’t bring the dead woman back. He is a man, not a rabid dog, and just killing him doesn’t solve anything but saving taxes, maybe. The goal is to start undoing the same corruption in others, and killing them cold is not encouraging for them to be open to be healed.

    The same applies to why mentally ill persons don’t self-report before they slip, do something and get caught in most countries.