OSAKA -- A Japanese man on trial in Macau on charges of murdering a Chinese woman and injuring another in August has admitted being involved in the murder of a Japanese man in Osaka earlier this year, investigative sources said Saturday.

Masami Fujikawa, 47, told Osaka policemen sent to Macau to question him that he dumped the body of Masami Onishi, 54, an Osaka clothing wholesaler, in a forest in Kumano, Mie Prefecture, the sources said.

Based on Fujikawa's admission, police on Friday searched a forest in Kumano, the sources said.