Body parts of wife, son net man's arrest

OSAKA — A 57-year-old unemployed Osaka man has been arrested in connection with the suspected murder of his wife and son, whom he had reported missing in 2006 and whose body parts were found in recent days in three 18-liter containers, police said.

They arrested Yasutaka Fujimori on Monday after identifying the remains in the metal containers as those of his wife, Atsuyo, who was 47 when she was reported missing, and their son, Nobuaki, who was 21.

Fujimori lived in a condominium near where one of the three containers was discovered in Tennoji Ward.

He was arrested on suspicion of parts of the woman's corpse at various locations, including a park.

The decomposed head and other body parts of at least two humans were found Aug. 14 and 15. One of the metal containers was found in a park, another on a street about 100 meters away and the third at a garbage disposal site of a condominium building near Fujimori's dwelling. The head was wrapped in a 2006 newspaper.

Fujimori filed a report with Tennoji police around May 2006 that his wife and son had "gone missing in April."

At that time, he claimed he knew of no reason or motive to explain why they had disappeared, they said.

It was recently learned that Fujimori had worked for an Osaka pharmaceutical company. One of the containers was labeled with the name of a medicine maker that shipped products to the pharmaceutical company, police said.

According to the company where Fujimori worked, he was in charge of the area in the company where they threw out that kind of container, and that is where the police believe he got the containers.

Investigators are trying to find out if there had been trouble between Fujimori and his wife at the time the missing persons report was filed.

They said he has denied any wrongdoing.

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