TBS News reports that male remains were discovered on Saturday morning in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture, which is the same general area where Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui was reportedly going hiking on September 11th when he went missing. Authorities have not identified the remains yet, but they told the TBS television station that the clothing on the remains resemble those of Usui.

Usui’s family said he was going hiking for a day in Gunma Prefecture on the morning of September 11th and expressed his intent to climb the Arafune mountain, which is 4,665 feet high at the border between Nagano and Gunma Prefectures. Authorities have been searching this area since September 12th.

At 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, the authorities received a report from climber that “there are remains below a rocky ledge.” The man that discovered the remains said, “It didn’t seem like a place where people can get to. He probably fell there from above.”

The remains were lying facing down with apparent fractures throughout the entire body, and had seemed to be there for several days. Police from the nearby town of Shimonita will recover the body on Sunday.

Source: TBS News