A man was found dead in a love hotel in Osaka on Saturday night and police are looking for another man who checked into the hotel with the victim.
According to police, an employee at the hotel in Tennoji Ward called 110 at around 10:50 p.m. Saturday and said there was a dead man in a room, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police found the victim in his underwear lying face up on the tatami floor next to the bed. He was confirmed dead at the scene.
Police said the man was in his 40s and had multiple bruises, including old ones, on his abdomen and neck. There was one belt-like restraint on each of his hands and feet.
Police said the victim checked into the hotel with a male companion at around 7 p.m. on Saturday for a three-hour plan. The hotel employee said the companion left the hotel alone about an hour later. When the other man had not checked out after 10 p.m., an employee went to the room and found the body. The room was unlocked.
A coin purse containing about 2,000 yen, a backpack and a mobile phone belonging to the victim were found in the room.
© Japan Today
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falseflagsteve
This is a very strange sounding case. Old injuries as well as new and the victim was using a purse.
Surely there is CCTV of the murderer, unlikely this evil monster will evade capture.
diagonalslip
a lot of people use coin purses.... nothing strange about that you see.
falseflagsteve
Diagonal
Yes, but he was a man using a purse.
Norm
Always unfortunate to read these stories. But if the man’s wallet is gone, then it’s easy to guess why he was a victim.
Yes, I see them every day when people pay using cash, but some people don’t understand what it is and obviously assume it’s something like a woman’s handbag carried outside another bag.
wallace
Using a coin purse makes him what?
Curious George
SM role play that went too far.
Zaphod
Curious George
Yes, defiinitely looks like it.
Abe234
i think your interpretation of a female western purse and Japanese coin purse are different. Nothing to see there regarding a coin purse.
girl_in_tokyo
falseflagsteve Today 08:17 am JST
Yes, but he was a man using a purse.
Right, because using a coin purse for your coins instead of putting them in your pocket like a Real Man makes you gay. Just like those guys who OMG wear pink or even gasp - carry a bag!!
And of course, being gay is bad, umkay, because (vague mumbling, conspiracy theories about chemtrails and gay frogs) and (more mumbling and hyper-masculine posturing).
You go, Steve. This helps us all know you are totally 100% CISGENDER HETERO MALE. Booyah!
Jind
Maybe the dead man was Sadistic, and the act(s) went wrong this time.
buffalo
The coin purse is strange.
Zaphod
buffalo
I do not see why. Explain?
iron man
Everybody is jumping up and down about coin purses cos FS made it an object?? So I do not carry coins but keep a stack in containers to donate at Xmas (most of our tixi are still cash), Why no comment about whether or not they arrived (left???) in a limo Taxi, etc. etc... so strange?
Jeremiah
Two men entered the room pointing to a sodomic encounter. Men with same-sex attraction are at higher risk for abuse due to the small limit of same-sex partners.
travelbangaijin
Most men I know keep their coins in a purple Crown Royal liquor bag...
Stewart Gale
Steve, the police also mentioned a backpack and a mobile phone.
You consider them “so odd” too?
falseflagsteve
Stewart
Everything is relevant, that’s why the old bill mention them, especially the facts about the injuries and the purse.
Stewart Gale
They merely listed what was found. A backpack, a mobile phone and a coin purse. The type I have seen many men use.
I don’t understand your fixation with this item.
garypen
What's with all the focus on the coin purse, as if it's strange for a man in Japan to use one? It's not. It's totally normal here. I dare you to easily find a man's wallet in Japan that doesn't have an integral coin purse. They do exist. But, they are in the minority.
I know, as I was wallet shopping last year, and had a helluva time finding one without an integral coin purse. (I like a very slim billfold-type wallet with plenty of card slots. The coin section makes it too thick, and takes away precious card slots.)
Many Japanese men carry handheld wallets and even shoulder bags with separate coin purses. I don't care for that myself. It's not so much a cultural thing of not wanting to look "effeminate". I just don't like carrying stuff. I don't like coins in my pocket either. I keep 100yen and up coins in the car for parking and vending. And, smaller coins I give to the wife and her coin purse. (If I drop 1 or 5 yen coins, I don't bother to pick them up, which drives my wife nuts.)
FYI - The reason they mention the coin purse is to point out that it probably wasn't a robbery. That's all.
garypen
That's a reasonable assumption.
The victim would have been masochistic, if he enjoyed being restrained and hit.
A sadistic person enjoys inflicting pain, not receiving it.
Stewart Gale
And, if all the attention about the coin purse is to insinuate that the victim was gay, the story states that the police are looking for a man who checked in with him. So, quite evidently they were two gay men.
falseflagsteve
Stewart
Exactly, hence the presence of the purse with the victim at the crime scene
Stewart Gale
I thought this has been covered Steve.
The type of coin purse being mentioned is different from the purse a lady might use. Not that the type of purse is relevant in any way.
I really don’t understand your line of thinking here.
BB
I'm sorry for the victim, but certain readers' obsession with the coin purse is amazing. Was it a purse? Or a pouch? What were the dimensions? Gold clasp? This is the key to the case! ...or not...
Stewart Gale
Yeah, is the poster obsessed with this purse suggesting that was somehow the motive or catalyst for the murder?
Truly bizarre.
stickman1760
Since everyone else is, I’ll weigh in on the great purse controversy. It’s quite common for men in Japan to carry an oversized wallet at their side. It’s not Gangsters, salarymen, entrepreneurs carry them. Anyone who has lived here for a while should be aware of this.
Gaijinjland
Falseflagsteve,
You’re saying this is strange and getting caught up on a coin purse but in other stories of heterosexual couples being murdered you call it a queer affair?
Moderator
Readers, please don't get fixated on the coin purse. No further discussion on that point, please.
Mr Kipling
You don't think. Then perhaps the ahem, "partner" panicked and ran away. He will be found, probably already is. What happens in a case of someone wanting to be strangled unconscious ending up dead? Misadventure?
owzer
Sounds kinky! Bad ending.