Japan Police Arrest Woman, Parents in Beheading of Man at Hotel in Hokkaido Entertainment District

Japan Police Arrest Woman, Parents in Beheading of Man at Hotel in Hokkaido Entertainment District
A hotel where the headless body of a man was found in Sapporo, northern Japan, on July 8, 2023. Kyodo News via AP
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TOKYO—Japanese police said they arrested a woman and her parents in a beheading case in a popular night entertainment district in Japan’s northern city of Sapporo, where a headless man was found in a hotel room three weeks ago.

Hokkaido police on Japan’s northern main island said Tuesday they arrested Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, a 59-year-old psychiatrist, the day before on suspicion of conspiring in beheading the victim at a hotel room and relocating his severed head in the middle of the night between July 1 and July 2.