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Two men from Kochi Prefecture have been arrested on suspicion of abandoning a body in the mountains of Ehime Prefecture. The suspects -- Mizuho Sakoda, 41, and Eiji Hatake, 41 -- are accused of burying the body of a male acquaintance who lived in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, in the mountains near Tobe, Ehime Prefecture, in June 2015, Fuji TV reported.
According to police, a missing person report was filed last summer but no sign of the missing man's whereabouts was found. On Monday, the two suspects surrendered themselves to police and revealed where they had dumped the body of their acquaintance.
The suspects have confessed to the crime and police said they plan to upgrade the charge from abandoning a body to murder.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
The word vague springs to mind.
SenseNotSoCommon
Read it as an ipso facto murder conviction.
Tamarama
You are definitely not allowed to abandon a corpse in the mountains of Ehime.
WilliB
No mention of how the "aquaintance" turned into a body... I dont suppose they suddenly found their friend dead and then abandoned im in the mountains of Ehime
randomnator
Someone, these two, got told to take the rap. Whether they killed him or not isn't the point here, the crime is solved and the police and their "friends" can get back to business as usual.
Jason Santana
In other countries abandoning a corpse is called a suspected murder. Why use these choice of words rather than call it what it actually is? You can't just abandoning a corpse of a "acquaintance" and not have the suspicion that something had actually occurred.
Strangerland
Really?
Link: http://www.cknw.com/2016/10/03/man-charged-in-relation-to-natsumi-kogawa-death-makes-brief-court-appearance/
You say they aren't calling it what it is, so are you saying they didn't abandon the corpse? Then how did it get there?
sensei258
Abandoning a corpse is easy to prove, thus prompting an arrest. It takes longer to prove a murder and upgrade the charges
Strangerland
It's also a charge that they are easily willing to drop in favor of murder.
Dennis Bauer
No mention in the article why they killed him?