In one of the most disconcerting bits of news in the past few months, there was a body found in a Tokyo suitcase earlier this week, after employees at a train station realized there was a strange smell coming from a locker room - and shock ensued.
There's no doubt that Japan has a lot of what the Western world considers "quirks," such as their odd food items like incredibly realistic gummy worms and their obsession with Kit Kats, but the body found in a Tokyo suitcase is as big of a shock for people in the Americas and Europe as it is for those living in the Asian country.
According to The Guardian, the case of the body found in a Tokyo suitcase happened last Sunday, when a worker opened an unclaimed suitcase after it had been at the train station for about a month.
BBC reports that the body found in a Tokyo suitcase had originally been left inside a locker at the JR Tokyo train station on April 26, and that's where the 70cm by 50cm by 25cm yellow suitcase had been sitting for more than a month when it was opened.
Upon opening it, the worker noticed an odd smell - and ultimately realized there was a body found in a Tokyo suitcase when he saw there was also hair present.
According to Yahoo! News, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police is currently working on the case, and they've said to the media that the corpse found belonged to an elderly woman between 70 and 90 years old of about 1.40m tall (4 feet and 7 inches), though she remains a Jane Doe.
Police is currently investigating the elderly woman's cause of death as well as video footage of the moment the suitcase was left at the main train station, in an attempt to figure out who had left it there.
Authorities have also said that there are no obvious injuries on the body found in a Tokyo suitcase.
