Man arrested after wife's legless body found on beach

She was later confirmed dead at a hospital.

So, they transported an obvious corpse, dead god knows how long, but only after reaching the hospital could a clear determination be made that the poor woman was in fact dead.

Anyway, not something I'd want to find on my morning run.

jcapan

Its because only a doctor can legally proclaim someone dead. Until then it’s “presumed dead.”

Tragic. I cannot even imagine what led up to a woman having her legs hacked off.

Now, the million dollar question here....will there be a follow up?

Beer guy, I know that. I just thing the way it's reported is unnecessary. "Legless body" strongly implies death, I'd think. It's a translation issue.

Japan may officially have a lower crime rate than many other countries but some of their crimes are seriously grotesque.

jcapan - So, they transported an obvious corpse, dead god knows how long, but only after reaching the hospital could a clear determination be made that the poor woman was in fact dead.

Death can only be determined and confirmed by a certified doctor in Japan. Paramedics, police, etc. cannot certify a death. The few cases you hear about with with deaths confirmed at the scene, there was a doctor present.

Limbless bodies seem to appear pretty often in Japan. There was that one a couple of months ago in Chiba where body parts were washing up for a month.

Damn, that is a gruesome find. Shark? In Sagami bay? That's highly unlikely.

Murders are quiet common in Japan, just most are never reported or misreported as suicide or missing.

i know 2 young woman who were murdered this year and not being reported as such.

i feel this may be done by the same group. Very sad.

Murders are quiet common in Japan, just most are never reported or misreported as suicide or missing.

Um, if they aren't reported, then how could you logically know this?

Her legs may have been eaten by sharks or something after her corpse was dumped in the water.

but some of their crimes are seriously grotesque.

Some of EVERYONE'S crimes are seriously grotesque. You just have not been paying proper attention.

The police said that the legs looked to have been artificially severed, raising their suspicions.

Perhaps there was a tattoo or something on one of her legs that could have led to identification?

So, they transported an obvious corpse, dead god knows how long, but only after reaching the hospital could a clear determination be made that the poor woman was in fact dead.

Yes, because a doctor needs to legally declare her dead. There is also a question of the post mortem.

Um, if they aren't reported, then how could you logically know this?

Only the murderer would know this for sure.

Legless?  Literally or slang term?

Apparently she looked down on him and despised him and he could take it no longer, according to his testimony. He said he cut off her legs to fit her into a suitcase...

https://news.tv-asahi.co.jp/news_society/articles/000158232.html

It takes two to tango.

This is grim reading as I eat my cornflakes this morning.

Luddite, Disillusioned, yes, I understand this. Been around for a while. I just think it makes for a silly article. A body being found, in English, means the person is dead. B/C of the quirks of Japanese law, I get it--a doctor must officially declare someone is dead, even if they've been struck by a meteor. I just think journalists or wire-reporter translators could simply their stories.

It takes two to tango.

What on earth does this mean? One wife to look down on a violent, deranged spouse, and one husband who murder his wife and dismembers her body. False equivalence?

What a bizarre case! It's sickly likeness of the proverb like "fact is stranger than fiction." Hope the police will reveal the weird case ASAP. RIP to the victim.

jcapan, my comment was in response to an early comment now deleted that suggested that it is always men murdering women. It takes two to create a scenario, is what I wanted to say, and it is rarely a one-way street. This murder was the guy's answer to his wife.

(As to 'my' minus points above, I would like to point out that I have simply updated the news for the readers here and refrained from commenting. You wish to shoot the messenger? If you would not like me to give updates I can easily stop.) :-)

Hold it here, don't get me wrong. If you want my personal opinion, the whole thing is totally sick and deranged, and I cannot fathom how someone could logically take this course of action as a way out. But he did, it seems.

nandakandamandaToday  04:20 pm JST

It takes two to tango.

Do you mean it takes one to be murdered in cold blood, and have her body mutilated after being murdered...

And another to murder that person in cold blood, and mutilate her body after murdering her?

I’d like to know how you ‘hint’ at killing someone

"I’d like to know how you ‘hint’ at killing someone".

You tell the cops that you don't know where exactly the wife is now but the last time you saw her she was legless.

Distasteful jokes aside, you do wonder why the severed legs? Heads and/or hands could be easily explained. One sick puppy of a husband I guess. I would be surprised if the husband didn't exhibit violent tendencies before. Anyway, very sad story.

Is "abandoning the body" any more severe than Murder ?

Abandoning a body is a charge the police use while they gather evidence to charge a suspect with murder.

@mmwwkdw

He cut her legs off so that he could fit her body in to a suitcase and move it from their house to the beach.

It takes two to tango.

Its too absolutist and will be taken out of context to your other posts. I too have a problem when people refuse to accept that psychological abuse can and does sometimes come with physical consequences. People try to write psychological abuse off as nothing, which is easy when they are not the one being subjected to it. But you know, I have seen people physically banged up in accidents and such and the people responsible for it take one look at them and say "You're fine!". Empathy seems to be a rare quality these days. Not saying any of that excuses murder but if its true it should mitigate sentencing. Temporary insanity is a real condition and if you don't want the consequences of creating it, don't create it.