<figure id="attachment_459013" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459013" style="width: 991px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="5225a884"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/9499d851a05003897bd6a13979c6aab9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459013" class="wp-caption-text">On February 21, Kazuhide Owada was arrested by the Higashiyamato Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for abandoning a corpse.</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> I can&#8217;t die alone.&#8221;</span></h2>
<p> He has a stocky build and a beard. At first glance, he appeared to be a handsome man, but his expression was restless, as if he had closed his eyes while walking and then suddenly broke into a wry smile.</p>
<p> On February 22, the suspect, Kazuhide Owada, 26, came out of the Higashiyamato Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to be sent to the public prosecutor&#8217;s office. He was arrested on February 21 on suspicion of dumping the body of a male acquaintance in a van.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> According to the police, around 20:00 on February 20, from the parking lot of an apartment in Musashimurayama City, Tokyo, the suspect, Owada, &#8216;got into an argument with a friend and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife,&#8217; and called 110 himself to the Higashiyamato Police Station. When police officers rushed to the apartment, they found the body of a man in his 20s with stab wounds on his back in the trunk of a van.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The suspect stated to the police that he got into an argument over work and that he carried the body from the man&#8217;s apartment to his car around February 10. The police are hurrying to confirm the identity of the suspect and are investigating him for murder as well.</span></p>
<p> Usually, even in the case of murder, a person is first arrested on suspicion of abandoning a corpse. In this case, too, the individual has turned himself in, and the possibility of a murder case is extremely high. On the other hand, in another case of body dumping, many mysteries still remain.</p>
<p> In Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, a suspect, Rina Ishii, 30, was arrested on January 31 for dumping the body of a man, believed to be her boyfriend, in a hotel room.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> According to the announcement, around the night of January 26, Ishii left the body of a man (19), believed to be her boyfriend, at a business hotel in Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, and at around 10:30 a.m. on January 30, she called his family saying, &#8220;I cannot die alone. I can&#8217;t die alone. I&#8217;m going to jump to my death. The family rushed to the hotel and found the body.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The two had been staying at this hotel since January 24. The suspect Ishii admitted to the police that he left them alone, but there was no noticeable trauma to his body, and no cause of death has been announced as of yet.</span></p>
<p> On February 1, Ishii, who came out of the Nagareyama Police Station of the Chiba Prefectural Police for inspection, was slender and slender, with long, straight hair. She looked like a young woman of today&#8217;s generation, but her expression was exhausted and she did not respond at all to the strobe light of the media camera, but instead looked down and walked weakly as the police officer urged her on.</p>
<p> Former Kanagawa Prefectural Police detective and crime journalist Taihei Ogawa commented, &#8220;The suspect Ishii was at least a few years old.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The suspect Ishii knew the man was dead for at least several days before dumping the body as it was. If this had been an accidental death, he would have immediately reported it to the police, which seems highly unlikely. 19-year-old male was his boyfriend, so there is a possibility of forced suicide. I am sure they are carefully investigating the case, considering all possibilities, from murder to assisted suicide.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, no matter what the cause, if the body was dumped, even for a few days, he will be firmly charged with the crime. Recently, the number of young people who use such hotels to commit similar crimes has been increasing, and it is quite possible that they are daring to withhold the results of their investigations.</span></p>
<p> Needless to say, the charges in both cases are not light.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" The true faces of the suspects in the string of body dumping cases"></div>
<figure id="attachment_459014" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459014" style="width: 966px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="6cdcbfd5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/f8e10464afe2aca329c079603f4f8a2b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459014" class="wp-caption-text">Kazuhide Kowada, a seemingly coy but restless suspect with an ever-changing facial expression</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_459016" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459016" style="width: 889px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="21492721"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/1be0700f9d0c6772635dbbb2d7759dd9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459016" class="wp-caption-text"> Rina Ishii, the suspect arrested for dumping the corpse of her boyfriend, a 19-year-old man</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_459155" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459155" style="width: 749px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ab5bab82"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/5e14e416ee47a1261e758fff696fd8e3-1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459155" class="wp-caption-text"> Suspect Rina Ishii walking weakly with a vacant expression all the time</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_459156" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-459156" style="width: 692px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d515d926"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/01524c1780e401dbf269ded920795342-1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-459156" class="wp-caption-text"> The body was found by family members who rushed to the hotel.</figcaption></figure>


 Shinji Hasuo

 On February 21, a 26-year-old man was arrested for dumping a dead body. The man reportedly stated that he stabbed his friend to death. Meanwhile, on January 31, a 30-year-old woman was arrested for dumping the body of her 19-year-old boyfriend. What was her statement?

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