A district court on Monday sentenced a 19-year-old man to 18 years in prison for the 2024 murder of a nursery teacher on a remote island in southwestern Japan, rejecting his defense team's call for a judgement that would potentially send him to a juvenile reformatory.The court found the man, who was a 17-year-old high school student at the time, guilty of fatally stabbing Fusako Kikuchi, 55, at her home on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture. Prosecutors had sought a 22-year prison term.The man has not been identified because he was a minor at the time of the crime.In handing down th…READ FULL ARTICLE
