Body found in food warehouse freezer in Niigata

A dead body in a food warehouse for a year, what kind of food?

If it weren't for the unexplained "cardboard box" and "pillow", I was wondering if it could have been a freezer that doesn't open from the inside and that he'd become trapped while doing something in there?

Sounds like suicide... I guess he wanted a little comfort when he died...hence the pillow

A dead body in a food warehouse for a year, what kind of food?

A warehouse of unmissed, untouched food. Gotta be whale.

If it's suicide, hypothermia's supposed to be a pretty good way to go.

A year in a food warehouse freezer without detection? Oh my dog! Don't they ever clean them? I wonder what else is stored in them.

Home-made attempt at cryogenics? It's a possibility.

suicide in freezer? first time i heard of this method...doesn't it take pretty long to freeze to death, its often used for torture, no?

I guess they'll have to sell all that food off cheaply now.

I'm guessing more concise reporting would say that it was a homeless man in a disused/derelict freezer.

"Skeletal remains" points very to an non-operative or at least non-operating freezer.

^ What Moki said. It must have been an abandoned warehouse with the power turned off.

Sounds like a homeless guy that didn't realize that freezers tend to be airtight, and that the supply of oxygen will run out. Especially when you manage to get yourself locked in.