The body of a Taiwanese female tourist was found at Kawaguchiko Hotel in Japan. A 27-year-old Taiwanese woman was arrested with a knife.

A woman in her 30s was found in the morgue this morning at a hotel in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The local police arrested a 27-year-old Taiwanese woman at the scene on suspicion of violating the "gun knife law" and are investigating the relationship between the two.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Yamanashi Television (UTY), and Yamanashi Broadcasting (YBS) reported that around 8 a.m. this morning, employees of the hotel found a suspected Taiwanese woman in her 30s sleeping in the room with no signs of life, blood stains on her body, and suspected stab wounds on her body.

The report pointed out that the deceased was a tourist traveling to the local area with a group. Because she still did not show up at the meeting time, hotel employees went to the room to check and found her lying in the room.

Sources involved in the investigation pointed out that when the police found the body, there was a Taiwanese woman in the room who was holding a kitchen knife with a blade about 12 centimeters long. The police therefore arrested her on suspicion of possessing a knife without justification and violating the "Gun Knife Law" (equivalent to Taiwan's "Guns, Ammunition and Knife Control Ordinance"). The woman is 27 years old and her occupation is unknown.

The police believe that she may know the death of the deceased, and they have not ruled out that it is a criminal case. They are currently further investigating the details of the case and the relationship between her and the deceased.

The site is located about 2 kilometers northeast of Kawaguchiko Station on the Fujikyu Line, in an area lined with accommodation facilities on the shores of Lake Kawaguchi.