Police have found the body of a woman in a wooded area in Awara, Fukui Prefecture, after a 49-year-old man arrested on suspicion of confining her told officers he had killed her and abandoned the body in the mountains, TV Asahi reported.
The suspect, Koji Utsunomiya, an unemployed resident of Hiroshima, was arrested and sent to prosecutors on suspicion of confining the woman, who lived in Ishikawa Prefecture and was in her 20s. He is alleged to have put her in a light passenger car and driven her around on the 30th of last month.
On the 5th of this month, the woman's parents told police they could not reach their daughter. Utsunomiya was arrested in Hiroshima Prefecture the following day, the 6th.
After he was taken into custody, Utsunomiya told police he had killed the woman and left her in the mountains, according to the report. Police began searching on the 7th and found the body in Awara.
A request for help three months earlier
About three months before the case, the woman had consulted police, saying she wanted to cut off her relationship with her partner. That partner was Utsunomiya.
Police believe there was some kind of trouble between the two and plan to investigate on suspicion of murder and abandoning a body.