On the morning of the 12th, a woman was found lying down on the premises of an apartment in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and was later confirmed dead.
The woman is believed to be in her 40s and has multiple puncture wounds, so police are investigating it as a murder case.
Before 8 am on the 12th, a resident of an apartment in Miyajimachi, Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture reported to the fire department that a woman had collapsed on the premises of the apartment.
Police and firefighters rushed to find a woman lying unconscious in the parking lot of her apartment and was taken to the hospital, where she was later confirmed dead.
According to police, the woman was in her 40s and had multiple puncture wounds on her body.
Police are investigating whether a suspicious person has been witnessed in the vicinity as a murder case, assuming that a woman was killed by someone based on the situation of the scene and the body.
The site is a residential area about 2 km south of "Shin-Yatsushiro Station" on the Kyushu Shinkansen.