Police in Osaka are investigating and are likely to arrest a 57-year-old man on suspicion of stalking and murdering a bar hostess early Friday morning.

According to the police, the man has more or less admitted to his involvement in the killing.

Yumi Imura, 38, was found on a street in Osaka's Hirano Ward at around 2 a.m. Friday with a knife sticking out of her belly. Several knife wounds were found on her body and neck.