Missing financier and wife found murdered in Tokyo

Two bodies unearthed in Japan have been identified as those of a Swiss-based Japanese financier and his wife who went missing from their swanky condominium in Tokyo in December, police said Saturday.

Makoto Shimomi, 51, who ran an investment fund, and his wife Mie, 48, disappeared after leaving their luxury apartment in Tokyo's upmarket Ginza district on December 7 during a home visit.

Police dug up the bodies in a vacant lot in Tokyo's northern suburbs on Monday after receiving a tip-off and have since arrested two men in connection with the suspected double murder.

One of the bodies has already been identified as that of the husband by fingerprints and other evidence, a police spokesman said. "We have confirmed the other body as that of the wife as its DNA matched that of her parent."

One of those arrested, 43-year-old fishery company executive Tsuyoshi Watanabe, reportedly admitted to the killing and told investigators he held a grudge against the fund manager because of investment losses.

"I strangled the couple because he was responsible for me losing hundreds of millions of yen (millions of dollars)," he was quoted as telling police.