The Tokyo District Court on Thursday handed a three-year suspended sentence to a 26-year-old man for raping a woman living in the apartment building where he was living in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in 2018.

The court found Daiki Inai, who was 24 and a University of Tokyo student at the time of the incident, guilty of forcing a woman in her 30s to commit a sexual act against her will and "making her unable to defend herself."

The prosecution had sought a five-year prison term.