Overview

• Hokkaido police on Sept. 22 said a judicial autopsy determined the man found buried in Mukawa Town died from hemorrhagic shock.
• The victim was identified as Takayuki Nishimura, 55, of Sapporo’s Toyohira Ward.
• Police arrested company executive Fumihiko Oogami, 49, on suspicion of injuring Nishimura with a knife on a Sapporo street on Sept. 2.
• Investigators allege the burial occurred in the early hours of Sept. 3 and have arrested Yuki Umezu, 36, on suspicion of abandoning a corpse as they examine the hours between the assault and the disposal.
• In separate cases on Sept. 23, a man was found and pronounced dead in Sapporo’s Toyohira River, and a large‑motorcycle crash on the Hokuriku Expressway near Kashiwazaki, Niigata, left the rider dead.