OTSU — A 34-year-old woman was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy as she was taking them to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, on the same day, police said.
The woman, Zheng Yongshan, who has Chinese nationality, admitted to the charges after her arrest in Otsu in the same prefecture, according to the police.
But she has yet to divulge her motive for killing the children — the girl Wakana Takemoto and the boy Jin Sano.