Police in Nagoya have arrested two more suspects in connection with the murder of a 32-year-old man in a hotel room in Nagoya on the night of June 6.
On Wednesday, police arrested a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, Yuya Hatano. The two are accused of conspiring with a third suspect in a "honey trap" to extort money from the victim, Hisamichi Kurita, an office worker from Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture.
The third suspect, Reion Kato, was arrested on suspicion of robbery and murder earlier this week, NTV reported.
According to police, Kurita was found face down on a bed in the hotel room on June 7. He was shirtless and only wearing pants. The sheets were bloodstained.
Police said Kurita's watch and other belongings had been stolen.
An autopsy revealed asphyxiation due to strangulation was the cause of death and that Kurita had bled from the nose.
Kurita had been out drinking with colleagues on Friday night. On Saturday morning, Kurita's wife contacted his workplace saying that she couldn't get in touch with him. One of the co-workers who had been drinking with Kurita knew which hotel he was staying at in Naka Ward and went to see if he was still there.
He and a hotel employee found Kurita’s body at around 3:05 p.m. and called 110.
Police said that hotel security camera footage showed Kurita and a woman entering his hotel room on Friday night. Shortly after, Kato entered the room. Later, Kato and the woman were seen leaving the hotel.
Police believe Hatano planned the operation by using the woman to lure Kurita into taking her back to his hotel room.
© Japan Today
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Shirokuma4812
Could this be connected to the unsolved “honey trap” murder that occurred in Hiroshima a few months ago?
almakukac
Why is the woman's name withheld? She is an adult and was an accomplice to a robbery murder case.
stickman1760
Be careful of women who seem overly eager to go back to your hotel. Devastating for the wife who has to live with the fact that her husband died looking to get a little action on the side.
vallum
I don't see it mentioned anywhere, but the 'hotel' was actually a 'love hotel'.
How did the coworker knew the man was 'staying' there? Not trying to be a detective here, but I don't believe it would be easy to just go to a love hotel saying a friend could be in danger (they do value privacy, after all) and hope the staff can help you.
They would have to take their time to check security cameras, find him, phone his room, and then with no answer, finally check it. By themselves, not with someone from outside (except the police, of course).
travelbangaijin
That is a backup plan of "just in case something happen to me" and smart to notify someone else you going out with someone else. But he should have better plan than the find my body outcome.
vallum
@travelbangaijin
Them being Japanese, I wouldn't be certain about that.
1) Regarding sex, and in this case also adultery, they tend to be discrete.
2) Japanese people usually think their country is safe (and they are not totally wrong, it is pretty safe).
3) They were coworkers drinking together, not friends.
Though, as they were drinking, alcohol may have made his lips loose a bit. Also, if he have spent some time working overseas it seems plausible he'd take said safety measures.