/ Source: The Associated Press
A U.S. sailor has received a life sentence for killing a Japanese taxi driver, Japan's foreign ministry said Thursday.
The ministry said Thursday Olatunbosun Ugbogu was sentenced in the Yokohama District Court.
Ugbogu is a a 23-year-old Nigerian citizen serving in the U.S. Navy.
He was found guilty of stabbing 61-year-old Masaaki Takahashi to death near a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, in March 2008.