OSAKA -- A 24-year-old unemployed man pleaded guilty Wednesday before the Osaka District Court to stabbing a passerby to death in March on a street in Moriguchi, Osaka Prefecture.

In his first trial hearing, Shiro Takagi admitted killing the 58-year-old company president, who was on his way home, by stabbing him repeatedly in his neck and chest with a kitchen knife on the evening of March 14.