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Police on Saturday said a Chinese man, who was arrested earlier this month for overstaying his visa, has admitted to putting the body of a Chinese woman in a suitcase and dumping in a canal in Tokyo.
The body of Yang Mei, 34, was found in the suitcase floating in the canal near Tennozu Isle Station in Shinagawa Ward on June 27. Yang had been missing for more than two years.
Police quoted the suspect, in his 30s, was quoted as saying he used to live with Yang. Police said he will be charged with abandoning a corpse.
The corpse, clad in a camisole and short pants, was not badly decomposed when discovered. Reports said the woman had not been dead for long.
Yang came to Japan in September 2013 as a trainee to participate in the government's Industrial Trainee and Technical Internship Program (TTIP). She was working at an auto-parts plant in Kyoto but disappeared from her dormitory after being seen in its cafeteria in March 2014. She was placed on a missing persons watch list by police in Kyoto.
Police matched the fingerprints of the body with those of Yang from the immigration bureau.
© Japan Today/AFP
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David Blue
Would like to know the reason he did it.
SenseNotSoCommon
Couldn't find a big enough locker?
wanderlust
How did she die? Did he keep her in his room since March 2014? Was she doing other work for him in the interim period? More than a little suspicious.
Brian Wheway
"Yang had been missing for more than two years." question 1: where has she been for these two years? " was not badly decomposed when discovered. Reports said the woman had not been dead for long". 2: so she must have been alive up until recently, so why kill her, and whats she been hiding for two years? sex slave? why hasn't she made any phone calls back home? very suspicious.
Magnus Roe
Visa dodging probably. Enter on a trainee / temp visa, disappear and do something more (?) profitable.