The Osaka District Court has sentenced a 22-year-old man to 19 years in prison for beating a Nepalese resident to death in an unprovoked attack on a street in the city of Osaka in January last year.
Hiroki Shiraishi, a tattoo artist, suddenly attacked Bishnu Prasad Dhamala, a 42-year-old restaurateur, in the early hours of Jan. 16 last year in Abeno Ward, the court said Monday in handing down a lay judge trial sentence one year longer than what prosecutors had sought.
Along with another man who is on trial separately, he hurled a bicycle at the Nepalese man and engaged in other violence that led to the victim's death, the court said.