A 35-year-old high school teacher was arrested by police for abandoning a woman's body in a wooded area in Obihiro, Hokkaido.
Police are proceeding with confirmation of the identity of the woman who was found in the body as a woman living in Hokkaido, who was reported missing on May 31, and are investigating the circumstances.
The person who was arrested was Akira Katagiri (35), a teacher at Obihiro Agricultural High School who lives in Obihiro City.
According to police investigation, it is suspected that the corpse was abandoned on May 30 in a wooded area in Obihiro City, alleging that the body of a woman was abandoned.
On the 31st, the husband of a woman living in Hokkaido reported missing "My wife will not come home", and when the police heard the situation from the suspect as one of the people concerned, "Digging a hole" He said, "I buried the body," and said that the body was found in a wooded area as stated.
The body was an adult woman, and her whole body was buried in the soil.
Police are proceeding with confirmation of the identity of the woman who was reported missing, and are investigating the cause of death and the circumstances of the incident.
A man near the corpse discovery site "Case shock near the stadium"
A man who manages a stadium near a wooded area where a woman's body was found said, "I'm shocked to see such an incident near a kindergarten or a stadium where children's baseball tournaments are held." I was talking.
Regarding the usual state of thickets, he said, "It is dark and unobtrusive except around the management office, and anyone can easily enter."
High school at work "Classes are conducted as usual"
The vice-rector of Obihiro Agricultural High School, where Katagiri works, told NHK that "There is no doubt that the teacher at our school was arrested, but the details will be announced by the Hokkaido Board of Education. Classes are conducted as usual so as not to cause any disadvantages. "