What with the all the news of the police shooting of that knife-armed maniac in Shinnabe, news of a man found dead in a vehicle in Ozu has been given short shrift. We here at Kumamoto International are here to rectify this deficiency. The Kumanichi (link below) provides oblique details as to this bizarre case: “A prefectural police investigation into what is described as ‘confinement’ of a male (44) from Fukuoka city has resulted in the arrest of an unemployed man from Tsushima City, address uncertain (27) on the charge for allegedly taking away the man with four men already arrested on suspicion of ‘confinement’. The suspect is alleged to have cooperated with the four other suspects in the ‘confinement’ of a used car dealer in Fukuoka City on April 7th from around midnight to around 5 o’clock in the afternoon in a mini passenger car in front of Hakata station in Fukuoka city to where his body was discovered at a business hotel parking lot in Ozu. According to the investigators, the most recently arrested man was acquainted with the other four suspects and had been arrested by Fukuoka prefectural police due to an unrelated incident. Suspected involvement in ‘confinement’ was due to security cameras at Hakata Station and around the hotel and the friendship between the men. Investigators stated that “There is a problem with the investigation” as reasoning for why ‘confinement in a mini car of a dead body’ has not yet resulted in murder charges. Nonetheless, investigators suspect that the five men were involved in murdering the victim and abandoning his body and are cautiously investigating to this end.” Updates no doubt to come. - William