A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 44-year-old man to 16 years in prison for killing a woman by stabbing and slashing her at least 55 times while she was livestreaming on a Tokyo street in March last year.The Tokyo District Court found Kenichi Takano guilty of murdering 22-year-old Airi Sato in the Takadanobaba district of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Prosecutors had sought a 20-year prison sentence, while the defense had argued for nine years.Presiding Judge Shunichi Ido said Takano had further degraded Sato's dignity by picking up her phone, which was still livestreaming, bringing the ca…READ FULL ARTICLE
