OSAKA -- Prosecutors demanded life in prison Thursday for a 21-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a girl and wounding two others on the street in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, in 1998.
During the day's session at the Sakai branch of the Osaka District Court, prosecutors said the man can be held fully responsible for what he had done, brushing aside an expert opinion that his mental faculties were impaired because he had inhaled thinner.
The name of the accused has been withheld under the Juvenile Law because he was a minor when the crime was committed in January 1998.