Overview
- Police announced on Friday that DNA tests confirmed a partial torso recovered in a mountain forest in Yugashima, Izu, belongs to the missing IT company executive, Takeshi Kamiyama.
- The torso was found inside a black Boston bag snagged on a tree on May 29 and was missing the head and limbs while showing signs of partial skeletonization.
- Company president Katsuya Mizuguchi, already arrested and indicted in April for removing a body from the firm’s Akasaka office, remains the central suspect as investigators expand the probe beyond corpse abandonment to possible murder.
- Authorities say searches have focused on places Mizuguchi visited, and police are using phone data, rental car records and forensics at the office to reconstruct the timeline and seek additional remains or evidence.
- The case began with a missing-person report in October after a friend could not contact Kamiyama and security footage last saw him leaving by bicycle on Sept. 28, a timeline investigators say complicates time-of-death estimates and forensic work.