A woman found dead in Awara, Fukui Prefecture, had told a colleague she might be killed, and police now plan to investigate her death as murder and abandonment of a body after arresting a Hiroshima man for allegedly holding her in a car.
The woman was Saya Nakata, a resident of Nonoichi, Ishikawa Prefecture. Police have not said how or when she died.
Koji Utsunomiya, 51, an unemployed man from Hiroshima Prefecture, was arrested on suspicion of confining Nakata by putting her in a car and driving her around on October 30.
How the two met
Utsunomiya had visited a restaurant in Kanazawa where Nakata used to work, according to people connected to the restaurant.
The two later began living together in Hiroshima Prefecture. Nakata then returned to Ishikawa Prefecture alone and spoke to a colleague there.
“I might be killed.”Saya Nakata, to a colleague, according to TV Asahi
Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances that led to her death.