Flash Mar. Haruna Fukuda, 27, a housewife from Kanazawa City, went missing from her home on February 6. A former cameraman employed on commission at public broadcaster NHK , Yasutaka Wako, 35, was questioned 11 days later by investigators from the Ishikawa Prefectural Police. Investigators reported that Fukuda had been stabbed in the neck and been dead for between two and three weeks. Wako was subsequently arrested for abandoning her body.
Fukuda had a three-year-old child with her husband, whom she married four years ago. They also bought a house last year. That agency is one of the approximately deri heru clubs in Kanazawa. The article includes a graphic from the Web site of the club Hitozuma Honpo, which opened three years ago. Fukuda helped her father by working as a receptionist and in keeping the books.
The headquarters of the club is in Toyama Prefecture β for its lax regulations β and sent ladies to Kanazawa and Toyama in building up its client base. The magazine notes that Waka was in substantial debt to Fukuda 3 million yen and her family 5 million yen.
The article postulates that the source of the funds was the out-call business. Fukuda told her parents on the day she disappeared that she was meeting Waka to collect the money.
The cameraman was working on a contract basis via a production company. He turned to freelance after March of last year. Fukuda and Wako seemed to have a relationship that went beyond money-lending, one that included attending live reggae shows, reveals the same acquaintance.
