Police on Monday arrested a 33-year-old man in Shizuoka Prefecture in connection with the fatal umbrella stabbing of a 55-year-old man in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, last week after a street quarrel.
Police identified the suspect as Hiroshi Makabe, a real estate employee in Hatsukaichi.
Police suspect that Makabe, who was arrested at around 11:30 p.m. in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, stabbed Toshimi Kuwabara with an umbrella last Thursday on a narrow street near the home of the victim's mother. The suspect was brought to the investigative headquarters set up at the Hatsukaichi Police Station on Tuesday morning.
Makabe told investigators that he and Kuwabara tried to pass each other in their cars on the street, which is about 4 meters wide.