Zheng Yongshan

Zheng Yongshan

Zheng Yongshan

Zheng Yongshan

On February 17, 2006, Zheng was supposed to drive her child and two of the child's classmates
to school as part of a carpool arrangement. She stabbed the two classmates in the stomach
and back with a 20-centimeter thin fish-cutting blade. Of the classmates, a girl, Wakana
Taketomo, was stabbed 19 times; a boy, Jin Sano, 13 times. Both children were five years
old. Zheng then dumped the bodies in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, a small town 300
kilometers southwest of Tokyo.

Sashimi knife.

People wait in line Tuesday to obtain tickets to hear the ruling at the Otsu District Court
on Zheng Yongshan, who stabbed two 5-year-olds to death last year.
(Kyodo photo)

Otsu District Court.

The girl, Wakana Taketomo, was stabbed 19 times; the boy, Jin Sano, 13 times.
Both children were five years old.