Overview
- A male employee cleaning a small refrigerator at a dispatch-type sex business near JR Kinshicho called police around 9 p.m. on Dec. 6 after spotting what looked like a child's head.
- Responding officers recovered a dismembered infant head in a plastic bag and limbs in plastic food containers from the freezer compartment, and the remains were frozen.
- Investigators estimate the victim was several months to under one year old, the sex remains unknown, and the torso has not been found.
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Investigation Division 1 is leading the case as suspected corpse mutilation and abandonment, and preliminary forensics indicate a sharp instrument was likely used.
- The office doubles as a waiting area for female staff, the shared fridge also held food and drinks with about 20 people entering daily, and no suspects or identifications have been announced.