Police on Thursday arrested a 23-year-old man who admitted stabbing his former girlfriend to death the day before on a street in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture.

Hayato Oka, of Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, was apprehended at a ferry terminal on Hachijo Island around 285 km south of Tokyo.

The victim, Shiori Yuasa, 22, was stabbed in the abdomen, apparently with a kitchen knife, at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in a shopping district in the city of Ichikawa and was pronounced dead at a hospital.