A 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of abducting a teenage girl in 2014 told investigators he had wanted to carry out such a kidnapping since his junior high school days, police said Friday.

Details about Kabu Tera-uchi's confession emerged a day after police arrested him for allegedly abducting the now 15-year-old girl. She was in captivity for two years before she finally escaped last weekend and was placed in protective custody in Tokyo.

The girl from Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, went missing on March 10, 2014, after she was seen speaking with a young man in front of her home as she was returning from school.