OSAKA -- The 34-year-old wife of a company worker slain Saturday in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture, has been arrested for asking her lover to kill her husband, police officials said.

Kikuno Fusamura of Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, has admitted asking Tadao Yamada to kill her husband, Shuichi, 36, by offering him part of the 30 million yen in life insurance benefits she expected to gain from her husband's death, the officials said, quoting the suspect after her arrest Wednesday.

Yamada, 46, was arrested Sunday on suspicion of stabbing the husband in the chest and abdomen while inside the victim's car in Moriguchi in the early hours of Saturday.