WAKAYAMA (TR) – Wakayama Prefectural Police have launched an investigation following the discovery of a male corpse in a mountainous area of Tanabe City, reports Fuji News Network (Jan. 11).
At around noon on Tuesday, a cleaning crew alerted police after finding the body, wrapped in a blue tarp tied with a white vinyl cord, on a slope off a prefectural road located in the village of Ryujin.
Clothed in sweat pants and a long-sleeve shirt, the body did not exhibit any external wounds, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun (Jan. 10).
Police are now seeking to identify the body.
