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Body Found in Kyoto Mountains Identified as that of Missing Boy

Police say the father admitted to abandoning the body, as investigators await a cause of death after an autopsy found no obvious external injuries.

Summary by The Japan Times
The body was found in the mountains about 2 kilometers southwest of the school in the rural city of Nantan that 11-year-old Yuki Adachi attended.

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[Yomiuri Shimbun] The body found in Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, has been identified as Yuki Adachi (11), a student at Sonobe Elementary School in the same city whose whereabouts had been unknown. At this time, the cause of death is unknown, and it is unclear whether or not it was a crime, but his bag and shoes were found in a mountainous area some distance away.

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In the case of Yuki Adachi (11), a student at Sonobe Elementary School in Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, who went missing and whose body was later found in a wooded area within the city, the Kyoto Prefectural Police began searching Adachi's home on the 15th on suspicion of abandoning a corpse. This was learned through interviews with investigative sources. Adachi died in late March, when she went missing…

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The Japan Times broke the news in Japan on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
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