Overview
- Police responded around 10 a.m. Monday after a neighbor reported piled-up newspapers at a two-story home in Nakajima 1-chome, Nishiyodogawa Ward.
- Officers entered the residence and discovered a man unresponsive in a first-floor bathtub, where his death was confirmed.
- The bathtub lid was closed with household items placed on top, and the front door was found unlocked, according to police.
- Authorities have not publicly confirmed the man’s identity or cause of death, though neighbors said a man in his 50s lived alone there.
- Osaka Prefectural Police’s Nishiyodogawa Station is leading the investigation in the residential area about 800 meters southwest of Dekijima Station.