Police in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, have arrested a 66-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his 91-year-old father at their home.
According to police, Toshi Taguchi, a farmer, did not report the death of his father Toshie and left the body wrapped in a futon his bedroom, local media reported.
Police said Taguchi told them his father died of natural causes in late March and that he didn’t know what to do. A relative contacted police on Tuesday after not having heard from Toshie or Toshi for some time. Police then visited the house on Tuesday and found Toshie's body.
Police said an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of Toshie’s death.
© Japan Today
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Lindsay
He reckons he didn’t know what to do with the body but I’m sure he knew how how to get his father’s pension payments.
John
He must have kept the corpse to get his retirement money
CaptDingleheimer
Kazuno is a dump. Beautiful surroundings, but it’s about as hick as you can get in Akita, and that’s saying something.
wallace
We have two urns of remains, my SIL & BIL on a tokonoma. They will eventually be transported to our family grave in Fujii but not any time soon. Both are very heavy.
Chico3
Anybody want to guess why he did it?
Shirokuma4812
It’s all about collecting that pension! It seems like family members always put a stop to it, right?
justasking
Most likely his father was a farmer, and he followed his father's footsteps, and so the retirement money would not have been enough and in fact the son would have been receiving his own pension money. My guess is he did not have the money to give his father a proper burial and when he told the police he did not know what to do he was being honest, financially that is. In Japan, they pay more homage to the deceased then they do to the living.
kaimycahl
In Japan when you are dead you are mourned but while alive you are a scorned