Tourist From New York Is Arrested in Japan as Woman’s Body Parts Are Found<br />27, 2018<br />TOKYO — Investigators in Japan have arrested a tourist from New York in connection with the discovery of a human head and other body parts<br />that were found during a search for a missing Japanese woman, officials said.<br />The woman’s head was found Saturday in a suitcase at a short-term lodging facility, or minpaku,<br />in the Nishinari ward of the city of Osaka, investigators told the local news media.<br />The Japan Times reported that he had admitted to disposing of her body, and it quoted investigators as saying<br />that her head, found in a suitcase in short-term private lodging, had been cut by a knife.<br />In an interview with Nippon TV in New York, the suspect’s parents told the network<br />that their son loved Japan and wanted to marry a Japanese woman, and they said he would never commit a murder.<br />The newspaper said he subsequently led officers to locations where they found the body parts, and<br />that he now faces charges of disposing of and damaging a body.<br />The man gave the police information that led them to mountainous areas of Osaka<br />and Kyoto prefectures, where they found severed arms, legs and a torso, according to local news reports.