Remember when police in Izu found a body in the forest that wasn't really a body, but a life-sized sex doll? Authorities weren't sure who did the irresponsible dumping, but we had our suspicions that it was Japanator Associate Editor God Len. It turns out that we were wrong. Phew!

Naturally, the police were pissed off after being humiliated in front of the world. They launched an investigation that made headlines at home and abroad. After seeing the trouble he caused, the body dumper, a 60-year-old Izu man, contacted police to confess. 

It seems that this man had lived with the high-tech sex doll for some years after his wife passed away. He wanted to ditch it before he continued with his plans to move in with one of his children. Wow, imagine that conversation!

"It seems he grew attached to the doll over the years,” said the chief investigator. “He was confused about how to get rid of her. He thought it would be cruel to cut her up into pieces and throw her out with the trash, so he proceeded to dump her illegally.”

It was never his intent to fool others and pass his sex doll off as a body. Pink Tentacle says that he now faces fines for breaking the Waste Management Law.

[Thanks, WS]