Mystery woman sought in slaying

MANILA (Kyodo) Philippine police were looking Sunday for a Filipino woman who was reportedly with a Japanese man before he was killed in northern metropolitan Manila.

The police said Katsuki Ohga, 45, received a series of text messages from Japan constantly inquiring where he was and assuring him a person he was to meet would be waiting for him.

But they stressed they still didn't not know why Ohga, a security guard in Japan, was attacked in the early hours of Saturday.

They said robbery was an unlikely motive because his valuables, including his cell phone, wallet and motorcycle, were not stolen.

Ohga had apparently waited from 4 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Friday for the Filipino woman near the public market in the town of Malabon.

Witnesses said that after the woman arrived, the two left together on Ohga's blue motorbike.

Three hours later, he was shot dead in a middle-class residential area in nearby Navotas City.

Ohta's motorcycle and a spent shell from a .45 caliber handgun were found beside his body. A bullet was lodged in his head, according to a crime scene investigator.

Police are now searching for the woman who was allegedly the reason Ohga had gone to the Philippines on July 2 with his 19-year-old Filipino wife of four months.

Ohga and his wife had apparently been quarreling over the other woman, and his wife said the woman was asking her husband for money to start a business.

She has suggested the woman may have had something to do with her husband's death.