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TOKYO — A woman was arrested Wednesday in the case of a man's mutilated body parts found in December in Tokyo's Shinjuku and Shibuya wards and has been identified as the man's wife, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The police said the body was that of Yusuke Mihashi, a 30-year-old employee of a foreign-affiliated securities company. They said his wife Kaori, 32, was arrested on suspicion of abandoning his corpse and has admitted to killing her husband during questioning.
Yusuke's unclothed torso was found inside a plastic bag left on a street in Shinjuku on Dec 16, while the lower half of his body was abandoned in the garden of an empty house in Shibuya on Dec 28 and was later identified as matching the torso through DNA analysis.
Kaori was quoted as telling the police that she "cut up the body with a saw." She told the police she killed him by clubbing his head with a wine bottle after he went to bed on Dec 12 after coming home early in the morning.
"I could not be the person I am because our ways of living never matched," she said. "After he assaulted me, I decided to kill him."
Based on her testimony, the police found his head in a park in the Tokyo suburb of Machida.
The couple had been married for three and a half years, but their relations began to sour after six months of their wedding, which was held in March 2003, sources familiar with the matter said. Kaori reportedly said her husband "denied" her personality, they said.
After allegedly killing her husband, Kaori transported his torso by a taxi to Shinjuku. She allegedly put the lower half of the body on a cart and carried it on foot to the premises of the empty house about 300 meters from their condominium, the police said.
Kaori allegedly put his head into a bag and rode a train to the park in Machida, about 1 kilometer northeast of JR Machida Station, the police said. She allegedly abandoned these body parts between Dec 15 and 28.
The two lived in a condominium in an expensive residential neighborhood in Shibuya Ward.
Kaori renovated the condominium late last year and filed a false missing person report after allegedly killing her husband, the police said.</SPAN>
The police said the body was that of Yusuke Mihashi, a 30-year-old employee of a foreign-affiliated securities company. They said his wife Kaori, 32, was arrested on suspicion of abandoning his corpse and has admitted to killing her husband during questioning.
Yusuke's unclothed torso was found inside a plastic bag left on a street in Shinjuku on Dec 16, while the lower half of his body was abandoned in the garden of an empty house in Shibuya on Dec 28 and was later identified as matching the torso through DNA analysis.
Kaori was quoted as telling the police that she "cut up the body with a saw." She told the police she killed him by clubbing his head with a wine bottle after he went to bed on Dec 12 after coming home early in the morning.
"I could not be the person I am because our ways of living never matched," she said. "After he assaulted me, I decided to kill him."
Based on her testimony, the police found his head in a park in the Tokyo suburb of Machida.
The couple had been married for three and a half years, but their relations began to sour after six months of their wedding, which was held in March 2003, sources familiar with the matter said. Kaori reportedly said her husband "denied" her personality, they said.
After allegedly killing her husband, Kaori transported his torso by a taxi to Shinjuku. She allegedly put the lower half of the body on a cart and carried it on foot to the premises of the empty house about 300 meters from their condominium, the police said.
Kaori allegedly put his head into a bag and rode a train to the park in Machida, about 1 kilometer northeast of JR Machida Station, the police said. She allegedly abandoned these body parts between Dec 15 and 28.
The two lived in a condominium in an expensive residential neighborhood in Shibuya Ward.
Kaori renovated the condominium late last year and filed a false missing person report after allegedly killing her husband, the police said.</SPAN>
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