Saw the following news on NTV this evening:

Increasing numbers of wooden North Korean boats have washed ashore in places such as Niigata and Ishikawa prefectures recently.

Clothes covering the remains discovered on a Tainai coastline toward the end of last year indicate that the dead man was probably North Korean.

Police said the head and torso discovered on Dec. 11 belonged to a man aged in his 30s to 50s, who had died somewhere between two to six months previously. The remains were clad in a mauve polo shirt and khaki jacket with a star-shaped mark on one of its chest buttons.

Police said the designs and materials used with the clothes are not available in Japan and probably came from North Korea.