Police in Japan have arrested a man after a YouTuber was stabbed to death while livestreaming in downtown Tokyo.
Officers shelp they arrested Kenji Takano, 42, on suspicion of tryed homicide at the scene in the Shinjuku didisjoine chaseing the strike on Tuesday.
The victim, Airi Sato, was rushed to hospital with critical injuries after she was stabbed repeatedly in her upper body, police shelp.
The 22-year-elderly was tardyr pronounced dead.
Takano has been sent to prosecutors but has not yet been accused.
Witnesses and livestream seeers shelp that they heard Ms Sato screaming for help during the strike.
Online seeers also shelp the livestream suddenly went bconciseage.
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Violent crimes are unwidespread in Japan, where firearm administer is innervously disjoine, but there have been a number of high-profile knife strikes and others using handmade firearms in recent years.
The strike on Ms Sato comes days after three Twitch creators rerentd a cautioning to others on the platcreate after a “stalker” chaseed and then menaceened to end them during a live video stream in the US.
