Japanese loan sharks murder, turn victim into “curry”
The case of an Asakusa man who disappeared at the hands of three loan sharks has just got stranger.
It now seems that the three first dismembered the man and then cooked him as a curry in Niigata, north Japan.
The victim, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, was running an eatery in Asakusa, the touristy “old town” in Tokyo. Three years ago he disappeared, aged just 27 at the time.
Three men, aged 34, 30 and 40 respectively, and who all have no registered work and were acquaintances of Kobayashi, were arrested on suspicion of disposing of a corpse. Kobayashi apparently owed them 20 million yen.
One of the men has now told police that they cut up Kobayashi and then cooked him in a curry in Niigata. This would appear to answer the question as to why the police cannot find the body.
It is not clear if the men actually ate their victim or whether they just boiled him up to get rid of the body and the smell.
