The Man Under the Toilet
The Fukushima Toilet Mystery
[February 28, 1989 | Fukushima Prefacture]
In a small village of Miyakoji, located in the outskirts of Japan, primary school teacher Yumi Tanaka had just returned to her teacher’s housing after a long weekend. Her Tuesday on February 28 began like any other day. She headed over to Dulu Village Elementary School to start her day, and by 5 PM, she was gonna call it a day after a quick toilet break.
Something caught her eye. Down the urinal opening, there was a … black shoe in it.
Back in 1989, it was common for Japan to use squat toilets that are directly connected to an individual small sewer tank with a U-shaped pipe. Yumi bravely decided to check the sewer tank out the outside.
HORROR.
It was clearly a pair of bare human feet.
She screamed. Her colleagues came running, but the man in the pipe did not budge. When the police arrived, they tried pulling him out to no avail as the opening of the outer pipe was only about 36 cm, and the man was stuck. One thing was certain the man was no longer alive. Authorities later called for the…
