A primary school teacher was left shocked after discovering the grim reality of what she initially thought was a peculiar object protruding from a school toilet.
Despite it being over 30 years since the chilling discovery, the mystery of how the deceased body ended up in the toilet remains unsolved, despite local residents' insistence that a murder had taken place.
Yumi Tanaka, a local primary school teacher, had wrapped up her day and was heading to the toilet before going home on a February evening in 1989. She noticed something odd sticking out of the squat toilet - it appeared to be the tip of a black shoe.
The revelation sent shockwaves through the small Japanese village of Miyakoji. Yumi stepped outside to examine the connected cesspit.
To her horror, she found two ba