A ballet student was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for fatally stabbing a Tokyo woman with whom he took dance lessons.
On March 24, Keiji Takada, 43, broke into the Shibuya Ward home of Mariko Mihashi, 31, whom he had been stalking, waited for her to return and stabbed her in the throat during a fight.
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