FUKUOKA -- The Fukuoka prefectural police on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman near JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka.
The suspect was found by a police officer in Fukuoka Prefecture on Wednesday morning.
He voluntarily submitted to questioning over the murder of Miki Kawano, a 38-year-old company employee who lived in Nakagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture.
Kawano was attacked near the station on Monday evening, sustaining more than a dozen stab wounds and cuts to the head, chest and other parts of her body.
An autopsy conducted by the prefectural police has revealed that she died from blood loss.
Police believe that Kawano was purposely targeted by the perpetrator.
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