Police in Kyoto prefecture arrested teacher Yu Hagino, 23, on suspicion of the murder of Sayano Horimoto, a sixth-grader, police said.
"The suspect has said that he stabbed the student after getting into a verbal dispute," a police spokesman said, adding that the stabbing occurred in Uji city in Kyoto.
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