Missing Japanese Man May Have Been Killed: Police

[george]

Missing Japanese man may have been killed: police

BANGKOK: -- Police said Tuesday that an unidentified murder victim found in Khao Yai resembled identity of a Japanese man who was reported missing.

Pol Maj Phumet Angsuwankul, an investigative inspector of Huay Kwang police station, said the body and other evidences found along the body in Khao Yai National Park indicated that the victim was Tanahashi Takahide, 33.

His Thai girlfriend, Ratree Nilphet, 23, filed complaint with police that Tanahashi could not be accounted for since August 5.

Phumet said he was awaiting results of DNA tests to confirm that the body was the Japanese man or not.

-- The Nation 2008-08-12

[think_too_mut]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

Yet another blow for risk averse nation as Japanese are. Not good for JP tourists contemplating Thai as their destination.

This week is "Obon Yasumi" - summer holiday in Japan so it won't have much of an impact just now, JP tourists who planned a Thai holiday are already there.

Sad news, anyway.

[Prakanong]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

Yet another blow for risk averse nation as Japanese are. Not good for JP tourists contemplating Thai as their destination.

This week is "Obon Yasumi" - summer holiday in Japan so it won't have much of an impact just now, JP tourists who planned a Thai holiday are already there.

Sad news, anyway.

With the recent report showing Thailand being the most likely place a Brit will die while in-country per rate of visitor how does it rate for the Japanese?

There seems to be quite a few Japanese murders, suicides and other deaths - how does it compare to other countries for the Japanese?

[think_too_mut]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

Yet another blow for risk averse nation as Japanese are. Not good for JP tourists contemplating Thai as their destination.

This week is "Obon Yasumi" - summer holiday in Japan so it won't have much of an impact just now, JP tourists who planned a Thai holiday are already there.

Sad news, anyway.

With the recent report showing Thailand being the most likely place a Brit will die while in-country per rate of visitor how does it rate for the Japanese?

There seems to be quite a few Japanese murders, suicides and other deaths - how does it compare to other countries for the Japanese?

Not exactly "quite a lot" but 1 is enough to disturb the Japanese.

Read somewhere that from 1.3 mil JP ppl going to Thai as tourists (more than US and Oz combined) , the number has dropped by 20%.

[Prakanong]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

Yet another blow for risk averse nation as Japanese are. Not good for JP tourists contemplating Thai as their destination.

This week is "Obon Yasumi" - summer holiday in Japan so it won't have much of an impact just now, JP tourists who planned a Thai holiday are already there.

Sad news, anyway.

With the recent report showing Thailand being the most likely place a Brit will die while in-country per rate of visitor how does it rate for the Japanese?

There seems to be quite a few Japanese murders, suicides and other deaths - how does it compare to other countries for the Japanese?

Not exactly "quite a lot" but 1 is enough to disturb the Japanese.

Read somewhere that from 1.3 mil JP ppl going to Thai as tourists (more than US and Oz combined) , the number has dropped by 20%.

Then there was the girl in Sukhothai - the murder suicide in Soi Nana

Over the years I hear about a few - even one mentioned going back to 92 today in the Straits Times as two Singaporeans have just been released on a Kings pardon for it.

[think_too_mut]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

Yet another blow for risk averse nation as Japanese are. Not good for JP tourists contemplating Thai as their destination.

This week is "Obon Yasumi" - summer holiday in Japan so it won't have much of an impact just now, JP tourists who planned a Thai holiday are already there.

Sad news, anyway.

With the recent report showing Thailand being the most likely place a Brit will die while in-country per rate of visitor how does it rate for the Japanese?

There seems to be quite a few Japanese murders, suicides and other deaths - how does it compare to other countries for the Japanese?

Not exactly "quite a lot" but 1 is enough to disturb the Japanese.

Read somewhere that from 1.3 mil JP ppl going to Thai as tourists (more than US and Oz combined) , the number has dropped by 20%.

Then there was the girl in Sukhothai - the murder suicide in Soi Nana

Over the years I hear about a few - even one mentioned going back to 92 today in the Straits Times as two Singaporeans have just been released on a Kings pardon for it.

Pity for Thai tourism - Japanese would rather stay home or go to Guam, Saipan or Hawai.

[Tony Clifton]

There was the Japanese man riddled with bullets dumped on the motorway near Chonburi.

Wasn't another recently found dead in a ditch near Jomtiem and all his money was missing, same as his business partner.

Two Korean girls tied together back to back and with bashed skulls.

[jamesjdaly]

Missing Japanese Man May Have Been Killed: Police robbed and shot him.

RIP

Edited August 12, 2008 by jamesjdaly

[TopDogger]

Then there was the girl in Sukhothai - the murder suicide in Soi Nana

And one down Suk Soi 11 last week also...

[TopDogger]

Two Korean girls tied together back to back and with bashed skulls.

I thought they drowned?

[jfchandler]

That I recall was the initial speculation by police, which then was pretty quickly transformed into being murders....

[Tony Clifton]

That I recall was the initial speculation by police, which then was pretty quickly transformed into being murders....

They saw the ocean and immediately concluded a drowning.

[Prakanong]

That I recall was the initial speculation by police, which then was pretty quickly transformed into being murders....

They saw the ocean and immediately concluded a drowning.

Now its not a funny incident but the comment about the BiB was funny

[Scott]

My condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of the deceased. Since he had a girlfriend who reported him missing, I would tend to think he was working/residing in Thailand. Anybody know about this guy?

[ptnewbie]

There is a video of a man entering the room of the victim just 40 minutues after he left his room.

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/art...NN00138426.html

The man entering the room withdrew 40000 bahts from the apartment ATM using the victim's ATM card when leaving. The victim has been missing since then.

Edited August 13, 2008 by ptnewbie

[TopDogger]

That I recall was the initial speculation by police, which then was pretty quickly transformed into being murders....

They saw the ocean and immediately concluded a drowning.

Wasn't there a hit of suicide thrown in for good measure?

[Nordlys]

The news is too fresh, nothing about that in the JP press in English.

It's been reported in Japanese media since two days ago.

There's often up to or more than 24 hours time lag between what is reported by Japanese press in Japanese and what's reported in English.

This is the fourth murder/suicide involving Japanese victims in Thailandsince November last year.

And one down Suk Soi 11 last week also...

That was a suspected as suicide. And the third reported Japaense suicide in Thailand this year...

Edited August 13, 2008 by Nordlys

[issanpaul]

There is a video of a man entering the room of the victim just 40 minutues after he left his room.

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/art...NN00138426.html

The man entering the room withdrew 40000 bahts from the apartment ATM using the victim's ATM card when leaving. The victim has been missing since then.

why is the mans face filtered? he does not look Thai ?

[Spee]

There is a video of a man entering the room of the victim just 40 minutues after he left his room.

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/art...NN00138426.html

The man entering the room withdrew 40000 bahts from the apartment ATM using the victim's ATM card when leaving. The victim has been missing since then.

The guy in the video appears to be slipping on a latex glove indicating that he is a perp. Let's hope the video is clear enough to nail the guy and any cohorts, and they get their come-uppance.

When will this violence against foreigners stop?

[Tony Clifton]

There is a video of a man entering the room of the victim just 40 minutues after he left his room.

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/art...NN00138426.html

The man entering the room withdrew 40000 bahts from the apartment ATM using the victim's ATM card when leaving. The victim has been missing since then.

The guy in the video appears to be slipping on a latex glove indicating that he is a perp. Let's hope the video is clear enough to nail the guy and any cohorts, and they get their come-uppance.

When will this violence against foreigners stop?

Yet another cop?

[TAWP]

Latex gloves doesn't protect against leaving fingerprints, so let's hope it was...

[sriracha john]

Body of Japanese killed in Thailand brought to Japan

(Kyodo/September 9 ) Japanese police brought the body of a Japanese man killed in Thailand to Japan on Tuesday, police officials said.

The police plan to perform an autopsy on the body of Takahide Tanahashi, 33, but it is uncertain that the cause of his death can be detected because the body is badly decomposed, they said.

The Thai police have obtained an arrest warrant on two men -- a 31-year-old man from Aichi Prefecture and a 30-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture -- on suspicion of killing Tanahashi, but the two have returned to Japan.

The two have told Japanese police during voluntary questioning that they had no hand in killing Tanahashi, but one of them has admitted to drawing 10 million yen from the victim's bank account and to abandoning his body in Thailand, they said.

Tanahashi, who hailed from Gifu Prefecture, went missing from his Bangkok apartment Aug. 5. His body was found dumped in a national park Aug. 9.

[wintermute]

Hmmm the plot thickens.

The two have told Japanese police during voluntary questioning that they had no hand in killing Tanahashi, but one of them has admitted to drawing 10 million yen from the victim's bank account and to abandoning his body in Thailand, they said.

Why would you screw your "friend" over in this fashion and not report to the police that he's dead? Also, how did they happen upon his body to know he was dead to begin with?

I'm not saying that they are perps for sure but that is pretty shady. Then again they could just be really self serving individuals.