Osaka police have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of killing a woman at a hotel in the city’s busy Namba district and taking her My Number card and other belongings.
Yuya Mori, a part-time worker from Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, admitted that he had strangled the woman, but partly denied the allegations, reportedly telling police, “I did not take any money or valuables and I didn’t intend to kill her.”
Police are trying to identify the victim, whom they believe was a 23-year-old acquaintance of the suspect.
Mori is suspected of murdering the woman at the Osaka hotel Friday night. Police believe the two got into some kind of dispute.
According to investigators, another man reported to police at around 5 a.m. Saturday that a woman might have been killed.
Police officers rushed to the scene and found the body of a woman lying in a hotel room with bruises on her neck.
Police linked Mori to the case through security camera footage and interviews with related parties. They found him at a hotel in the city of Kyoto, took him into custody and arrested him late Saturday night.
AloJapan.com