A man's head and part of a foot were found floating 20-30 meters off the coast in Tokyo Bay on Thursday by a fisherman in Yokohama's Kanazawa Ward, police said Friday.
On Wednesday, the buttock and left thigh of a man were also discovered nearby, and police believe the body parts likely belong to the same person. Investigators are currently working to identify the body and carrying out an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
According to police, no clothing or personal affects were found with the body parts, and several weeks appear to have passed since the man was killed.
© News reports
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sakurasuki
Please anyone claim these finding
kanadamanada
Don't you mean "off the shore", "translator"???
frontandcentre
Since it has to be somebody, PLEASE let it be let it be Ichihashi, suspected killer of Lindsay Hawker
kirakira25
Are you a native English speaker???! And secondly what the hell does it matter anyway Everyone who speaks English understands it?
frontandcentre - with you on that one!
Bento
nice idea f&c but no chance of it being true.
Antonios_M
Thats very creepy. At least, i hope he was not victim of a Higurashi no naku koro ni otaku fan...
Tetsujin
Looks like someone owed the wrong people money and didn't pay up...
tigerguy
I was just to about enjoy my home-cooked seafood dinner when I opened up my news page to this story. How can something like this happen in Japan? You'd think this only occurs in Iraq or drug fighting areas of Mexico. Now this is why I don't go swimming around the Tokyo waters...
usaexpat
Two guesses, shark attack or yak attack.
OhioDonna
What a coincendence! Just the week body parts were found in water near to where I work. It is all very sad.
kanadamanada
kirakira25 at 05:35 PM JST - 26th June
Don't you mean "off the shore", "translator"???Are you a native English speaker???! And secondly what the hell does it matter anyway Everyone who speaks English understands it?
I sure am, and I get paid to correct this kind of garbage as well as undo the damage caused by semi-litterate "English" teachers. It matters, if you care about the language.
jonnyboy
it seems that you believe the propaganda that the whole of japan is a disneyland-esque paradise of smiley happy cartoon characters who would never think about breaking out a frown, let alone dismembering a debtor or gangland rival and dumping the body parts in a sewer
which is probably what has happened here
knews
That's "semi-literate" kanada, not "semi-litterate". I care, too.
boboh
"and police believe the body parts likely belong to the same person".
Oh, reeaally, Mr. Policeman, whodve thunk it. More outstanding work by your local constabulary.
spudman
off the coast is fine. Might not be the common usage but its not wrong. Cops need to pull all the evidence together to get to the bottom of this.
OssanAmerica
As a native English speaker the poster is correct, with a distance of some 60-90 feet from the shore, it's absurd to say "of the coast" which is used for distances measured in miles/Km. To say "coast" in this case is wrong, period.
kanadamanada
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knews at 11:18 PM JST - 26th June
That's "semi-literate" kanada, not "semi-litterate". I care, too.
Well spotted. Apparently, my Jamaican rum does not share our concerns.
Ken Watanabe
What????
No wonder recent homicides in Japan sound more creepy than ever before.
hamiltontruther
@donna;" What a coincendence! Just the week body parts were found in water near to where I work. It is all very sad." Where do you work in japan?
it is best for japanese leaders to stop trumpeting that japan is a safety country.
hamiltontruther
"... homicides in Japan sound more creepy than ever before."
homicides in japan always have been creepy.
tigerguy
jonnyboy - No I don't believe all that propaganda but it is definitely less worse in Japan.
MagnusGarstin
Damn those illegal Asian immigrants! They'll do anything to get into Japan - even float themselves over in construction kit form! (Don't laugh - there's probably a Japanese government department being set up to investigate this possibility even as I type.)
ultradodgy
What? No personal effects were found with half a buttock?
Cynthia
I read a book by a japanese author about something like that. Its called OUT. Its a good book. (in the book a battered wife stragles her huband and she's blackmailed by her freinds after they cut up his body for her. Its awesome)