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<br>ABADIANIA,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html kynghidongduong.vn] Brazil, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Brazilian police may not be able to repatriate the body of a Japanese woman who was found murdered in Brazil, where she had sought treatment at a spiritual retreat, an investigating officer said on Thursday.<br> <br>Hitomi Akamatsu, 43, was found on Monday by a waterfall on a property owned by disgraced spiritual guru João Teixeira de Faria, known as "John of God." The self-proclaimed healer,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html tour cửu trại câu] who became a celebrity after appearing on a show hosted by Oprah Winfrey, has been convicted of raping women at his [http://www.reddit.com/r/howto/search?q=retreat retreat].<br> <br>Police have arrested Rafael Lima da Costa, an 18-year-old who confessed to killing Akamatsu on Nov.<br><br>10 during a robbery. Police tracked him using security camera footage and found where he had burned clothes, according to detective Isabela Silva.<br> <br>It may be [http://mondediplo.com/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=difficult difficult] to send her back to Japan, Silva said.<br> <br>"Due to her body being in an advanced stage of putrefaction, we don't know if we will be able to embalm her," Silva said.<br> <br>Police said Akamatsu arrived at the ranch roughly two years ago to seek treatment for radioactive exposure she said she had gotten from Japan's Fukushima blast.<br><br>She had stayed on after John of God's arrest and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-trung-khanh-cuu-trai-cau-thanh-do-ha-noi-sai-gon.html tour cửu trại câu] was well-known by residents in the town of Abadiânia, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) southwest of the federal capital Brasilia.<br> <br>Japan's embassy in Brazil said in a Wednesday statement that it had been informed of her death by local police on Nov.<br>16. Japanese diplomats said they were liaising with officials and those who needed to be alerted to her death, without giving more information. (Reporting by Leonardo Benassatto Writing by Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Steve Orlofsky Steve Orlofsky)<br>