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The body of a 48-year-old man bound in chains was found in a river in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, police said Saturday.
According to police, a man walking by the Ayase River spotted the body floating in the river at around 8:40 a.m. Friday and called 110, Fuji TV reported.
Police and firefighters rushed to the scene and retrieved the body which was fully clothed. The upper half of the man's body was bound in chains and his head had a bag around it, but there were no external signs of injury on the body, police said, adding they believed the body had been in the water since around mid-October.
Police have not released the man's name but said they identified him as a resident of Saitama from an ID card in his pocket. They are speaking with his relatives in Tokyo to learn more about his activities leading up to his death.
© Japan Today
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David Blue
Must be careful who we keep as company.
Moonraker
Saitama again.
bones
japan is a safe place,cant believe this has happened.
zurcronium
Didn't make his payment.
smithinjapan
Moonraker: the chains may give it that "Saitama touch" the area often pops up in in terms of the grotesque or repulsive, to be fair we've read a number of stories of bodies (or just parts) being found in rivers or ponds lately.
Strangerland
Even in the safest place in the world, murders will sometimes still happen. There has never existed a murder-free utopia in human history.
oldman_13
Despite what some will claim about how 'safe' Japan is, why is it then that we keep reading of these horrific crimes on a daily basis here on JT? A stabbing here, a murder there, there appears to be a rise in violent crime against persons.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Kobe has its nasty stuff happen just like anywhere in Japan or the world for that matter, but i must ask is Saitama that bad as it seems to pop up a lot with some pretty darn tasty crimes. Anyone on here living in Saitama?
drlucifer
JT needs a "Corpse in the River" section, these days not a week passes without a corpse found in some river here in Japan. Only god knows the number of corpse that are submerged in the bed of rivers in Japan.
aussierules
What do Japanese think safety means? There is no crime? Or the fact you can fall asleep on the train and wake up with your cash still in your wallet? I have been here for quite some time and think that it is no better off than anywhere else.
Strangerland
Such a utopia does not exist in the world.
But safety in Japan means the same as safety anywhere in the world - low rates of violent crime. And by that standard, Japan is safe.
Cosmos1
Would you call it Erotic asphyxiation … chains & the bag ?
Ah_so
Your argument is rather incorent. The evidence for Japan being low crime and safe is based upon statistics. You cannot reject this evidence because a murder happened. Yes, of course murders happen in a country of 120m people; they just happen with far lower frequency than in many other countries.
My feeling is that this was a yakuza on yakuza crime
Frederic Bastiat
What did he have on Hillary?
Argus Tuft
@kobe
It's just confirmation bias
DieRealityCheck
Japan still is safer compared to others. but was safer itself, much better
Psychos and perverts on public streets, people (both young and old) easily going nuts,. Kids carring knives, not unusual any longer.
some fundamental cure needed.
SaikoPhysco
Couldn't have been foul play... its Japan... probably just another suicide.
Frederic Bastiat
Didn't make his payment... to HRC. OR, had the goods on her.
Tamarama
Calm down boys, seriously. As I look to the right of the page here on JT, I see the 'More in Crime' section has pretty nasty reports from Tokyo, Fukuoka, Mie, Ibaraki and Gunma currently.
You are being completely disingenuous.
Jeff Huffman
"aussierulesOCT. 22, 2016 - 07:24PM JST What do Japanese think safety means? There is no crime? Or the fact you can fall asleep on the train and wake up with your cash still in your wallet? I have been here for quite some time and think that it is no better off than anywhere else.
You are either exaggerating the amount of time you've been here or have an odd sense of what constitutes personal safety. On balance, Japan is still one of the safest countries in the world. The violent crime is almost always the work of the mentally ill. Murders are either yakuza related or, most common, amongst family members. Muggings, bar fights and random assaults are almost unheard of. Sexual assault is where Japan falls off its pedestal.