Dismembered infant found in freezer of Tokyo adult entertainment business

This week in Tokyo, Japan, the body parts of an infant were found in a freezer at an adult entertainment business.

Key Takeaways:

• Authorities found a decapitated head and other limbs of a baby believed to be less than a year old in the freezer of an adult entertainment business in Tokyo.

• Reports seem to indicate that the authorities are not regarding this as a murder investigation, but as a case of "abandonment and damaging of a body."

• The seeming nonchalance toward the death of this born infant as well as the attitudes displayed toward the deaths of five nearly full-term aborted children in the U.S. reveals moral and spiritual failures in Japan and the U.S.

The Details:

News reports indicate that on Saturday, December 6, an adult entertainment business employee was shocked to find "what looked like a child's head when he was cleaning a refrigerator in an office." The man called police, and the "severed head, arms and legs of a baby" who was believed to be less than a year old were also found in the freezer. The baby's head was in a plastic bag, with the body parts reportedly underneath it inside a food container.

Various Japanese media outlets depicted the grim discovery of the baby’s remains with restraint, stating that authorities are "investigating the case as the abandonment and damaging of a body," zooming in on procedural matters regarding police investigations instead of sparking a moral reckoning. 

Few other details have been reported at this time.

Zoom Out:

In an era when the jargon of “human rights” seems to pepper many public discourses, it is increasingly challenging to comprehend why some lives appear to be regarded as undeserving of protection — or even of an investigation.

In early 2022, pro-life activists in Washington, D.C., found five nearly full-term infant bodies inside a box that contained the remains of aborted babies from an abortion facility. Experts have indicated that there is a possibility that some of these babies, known as the “D.C. Five,” may have been murdered in manners that breached federal law — through 'partial-birth' abortion or infanticide.

But the grisly discovery did not lead to a swift and thorough investigation into the matter; instead, authorities have classified the case as a “private medical” issue, deflecting concerned inquiries as to the cause of the babies’ deaths.

This deafening silence speaks volumes. The apparently violent deaths of five nearly full-term infants would, in an ordinary situation, ignite an instant outcry, widespread media coverage, and full-scale criminal probes. Nonetheless, in the case of the “D.C. Five,” because the babies’ deaths happened amidst the backdrop of “legal abortion,” authorities stonewalled initial investigations pertaining to their killings.

From a pro-life perspective, the reticence of the authorities (then under the pro-abortion regime of President Joe Biden) to investigate the deaths of these five nearly full-term babies is a miscarriage of justice. 

Why It Matters:

Both the D.C. incident and the one in Tokyo appear to have exposed an alarming societal nonchalance toward the killing of both preborn and born children.

Both cases tragically portray the denigration and devaluation of the smallest and most defenseless among us. The shock enveloping the grisly discovery of babies’ remains both in Japan and the U.S. led to a general silence from the authorities, the media, and others. 

Meanwhile, it is business as usual for pro-abortion advocates, framing the killing of innocent unborn lives as “healthcare” and persecuting those who stand up to defend unborn lives. 

If nations like the United States and Japan, with all their scientific sophistication and democratic pride, cannot recognize the worth of a child’s body when confronted by its small, silent form, then civilization itself stands indicted. No economic prosperity or political freedom can compensate for that moral blindness.

The media's and authorities' failure to demand accountability in these two cases reflects fundamental spiritual and moral failures in both the U.S. and Japan.

The Bottom Line:

Until justice is served, tragedies like the “D.C. Five” and the recent case of the discovery of the frozen dead baby in Tokyo will continue to recur, blighting the moral fabric of societies that persist in their indifference.