Tourist From New York Is Arrested in Japan as Woman’s Body Parts Are Found 27, 2018 TOKYO — Investigators in Japan have arrested a tourist from New York in connection with the discovery of a human head and other body parts that were found during a search for a missing Japanese woman, officials said. The woman’s head was found Saturday in a suitcase at a short-term lodging facility, or minpaku, in the Nishinari ward of the city of Osaka, investigators told the local news media. The Japan Times reported that he had admitted to disposing of her body, and it quoted investigators as saying that her head, found in a suitcase in short-term private lodging, had been cut by a knife. In an interview with Nippon TV in New York, the suspect’s parents told the network that their son loved Japan and wanted to marry a Japanese woman, and they said he would never commit a murder. The newspaper said he subsequently led officers to locations where they found the body parts, and that he now faces charges of disposing of and damaging a body. The man gave the police information that led them to mountainous areas of Osaka and Kyoto prefectures, where they found severed arms, legs and a torso, according to local news reports.
