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== Background ==
On the afternoon of 24 July 1989, on the path from Mount Kurodake to Mount Asahidake of Daisetsuzan National Park, two [[Tokyo]] men were lost after mountaineering. While going through the climbing route, they deviated down Mount Asahidake, south towards the
The Hokkaido police believed that the SOS letters made of wood had been constructed by the two people that they had rescued. However, when the police
The human bones were sent to [[Asahikawa Medical University]] and were identified initially as those of a woman aged 20–40 years. On 27 July, the police decided to play the recordings on the cassette tapes. On one of the recordings, the voice of a young man is heard shouting for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. A translation of the man shouting on the recording is as follows:<ref name="asahi_1989-07-28">{{cite news|title=大雪山遭難 テープ再生 叫び悲痛 2分17秒 |newspaper=朝日新聞 |date=1989-07-28}}</ref><ref name="nippon-kakomon" />
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An acquaintance of Iwamura gave testimony that Iwamura had been carrying a recording of theme songs on a tape, as well as the same size of basketball shoes that were discovered in the recent search. On the other hand, since the human skeleton was initially identified as a female, it was thought by investigators that there were two men and a woman that had gone missing at the park. However, there was no record of the missing female in Asahidake and Iwamura was said to have gone alone into the mountain. The identity of the woman and the potential relationship to Iwamura was unknown and caused confusion in the investigation and media coverage.<ref name="asahi_1989-07-29" /><ref name="asahi_1989-07-26" /><ref name="yomiuri_1989-07-26" /><ref name="apnews.com">{{Cite news|date=July 30, 1989|title=Driver's License Found Near SOS on Mountain Slope|url=https://apnews.com/article/58a71324ae12619492ea7e98b089a785}}</ref>
The Asahikawa East police station announced on 28 February 1990 that after a reexamination of all the human bones that were found, they now believed that the skeleton was actually male, not female
== Aspects of the case ==
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