Man arrested on suspicion of abandoning woman with stab wounds in Yamanashi housing complex (Kyodo News)

On the 8th, the Yamanashi Prefectural Police arrested a Brazilian man, Shijinei Tokio Miyakawa (49), whose occupation is unknown, on suspicion of abandoning a body after the body of a woman in her 20s was left in a room in a prefectural housing complex in Showa-cho, Yamanashi Prefecture. According to investigators, the suspect is the woman's boyfriend. The body had signs of stab wounds that appeared to have been caused by a knife.