Dismembered body that of missing Tokyo woman+.SHIZUOKA, Japan, Nov. 29 Kyodo (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : REWRITING re·write v. re·wrote , re·writ·ten , re·writ·ing, re·writes v.tr. 1. To write again, especially in a different or improved form; revise. 2. THROUGHOUT WITH CONFIRMATION OF VICTIM'S IDENTITY) Police said Wednesday they identified a dismembered body found last week in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, as that of a Tokyo gallery owner who went missing around the same time. The body was identified as that of Mieko Kubo, 52, by DNA tests DNA test n → DNS-Test m , police said. Kubo went missing after leaving her Tokyo home on the night of Nov. 19 telling her mother she would visit Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture to sell paintings, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. police. The headless torso torso /tor·so/ (tor´so) trunk (1). tor·so n. pl. tor·sos or tor·si The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk. was found floating in Oigawa port in the prefecture on Nov. 20. An initial identification of the body was made on the basis of medical records and was then confirmed by DNA tests, police said. A car belonging to Kubo was found in the early hours of Nov. 20 in a parking lot of a restaurant near the Shizuoka Interchange An interchange is a location where two things meet, usually perform some kind of exchange, and possibly go on their ways again. It is most commonly used in four contexts:
Kubo's mother reported her disappearance to police after learning of the discovery of the dismembered body through the media, police said. About 10 paintings worth an estimated 60 million to 70 million yen were stolen in late October from a car owned by the gallery owner, who had told acquaintances she was being followed by someone, police sources said. According to friends and acquaintances, police ignored her complaints about being followed. Kubo reportedly had large debts, partly from gambling, while lending money to some of her acquaintances, the sources said. She started buying and selling Japanese and Western paintings more than 20 years ago, according to her friends. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion