another update:
he Department of Foreign Affairs will still not confirm whether it was a Filipina entertainer who was murdered and chopped into pieces in Tokyo’s Roppongi district saying she has only been reported missing.
DFA Undersecretary for Migrant Worker’s Affairs Esteban Conejos said in a press conference that they could only say that the victim was chopped up.
He said the victim has not been identified and Tokyo police are conducting DNA tests to determine if the victim was indeed the missing Filipina.
However, Japanese newspapers and even the Agence France-Presse said that the victim was none other than Honiefaith Ratilla Kamiosawa, who worked in Tokyo's Roppongi entertainment district
Mainichi Shimbun reported that the Japanese man arrested for the murder, 48-year old Hiroshi Nozaki, was her roommate during the time of her killing. They shared an apartment in Kawaguchi in the Saitama Prefecture.
Chopped and washed
AFP said Nozaki allegedly chopped up Ratilla’s body and cleaned the pieces in a washing machine.
Media accounts revealed that Nozaki had served prison time for a similar case of mutilating the body of a Filipina bar hostess in 2000 but was set free.
Police on Sunday arrested Nozaki on charges of destroying the body of Ratilla.
The private Asahi network said Nozaki cut her body into pieces in his bathroom and "washed them elaborately in a laundry machine" to make them lighter or to make it difficult to trace the cause of death.
Little blood remained in the recovered body parts, although blood was found in the washing machine, the Asahi and other networks said.
Caught with evidence
Police declined comment on the reports. They earlier said that the victim's co-worker, who shared an apartment with her and Nozaki, saw him carrying a body part.
Nozaki was taken into custody after trying to commit suicide on a street in a Tokyo suburb by slitting his wrist.
Investigators found a scribbled note and a key he was carrying to a baggage locker where they found a body part.
The victim was reportedly cut into more than 10 pieces that were put into plastic bags inside a suitcase in a locker, but her head had not yet been found.
In the earlier crime in 2000, Nozaki burned the body parts and flushed them down a toilet, the Sports Nippon tabloid said.
The victim's cause of death was never established and he was convicted only of charges of destroying a body. He served three-and-a-half years in prison before being released, the newspaper said.
Roppongi is known for its sleazy nightlife including bars with foreign hostesses.
In the best-known crime case in Roppongi, 21-year-old British bar hostess Lucie Blackman vanished in 2000, with her dismembered body recovered seven months later.
Convicted serial rapist Joji Obara, a wealthy businessman, was acquitted last year over Blackman's death for lack of evidence but is back on trial in an appeal. With reports from Apples Jalandoni and Agence France-Presse
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