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Police in Shiroi City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 47-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his father in their former house.
According to police, Keietsu Hasegawa, who was arrested on Thursday, has admitted to the charge. He was quoted by police as saying his father died in 2017 at their home in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Sankei Shimbun reported. He told police he wrapped his father’s body in a tarp and placed it under the floorboards in their house.
Hasegawa left the house in 2017 and it was taken apart in January of this year. Parts were taken to a wood scrap yard where a construction worker found the human remains on Jan 22. Police believe that the corpse was brought into the storage site along with the disassembled pieces of the house.
Chiba prefectural police said a DNA test revealed the body to be that of Yoshihisa Hasegawa, the suspect’s father.
An autopsy on the remains in January was not able to determine the cause of death. Police are questioning Hasegawa about the circumstances of his father’s death.
© Japan Today
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sensei258
Gee I wonder if his father's pension was being collected the whole time and don't give me any of that I didn't know what to do with the body crap
sensei258
The story doesn't say he was unemployed but I'd bet money on it unemployed and living with your dad at 47 couldn't let that pension stop now could we
MaikuC
Japan isn't the prosperous country of the 80's. Maybe this son needed the father's meager pension to survive. I hope his father died of natural causes and this isn't another case of murder within the family unit.
sensei258
You are right he needed his father's pension to survive because he didn't want to get off his ass and get his own job
stormcrow
Makes you wonder about how many other mothers and fathers who have passed away due to natural causes are hidden somewhere on their property while the son/daughter collects the pension.
jcapan
Some Japanese filmmaker needs to remake Weekend at Bernie's, except it'd have to be Weekend at Taro's and Shin's and Midori's and Saeko's...
Seriously, this is like a monthly thing. Is there any parallel anywhere else in the world?
Mizu no Oto
Interestingly the father's age is not given. Wonder why police never released this information?
Janar Sibul
move home take fathers body with him that sounds kinda stupid and maybe he didint have money to bury his father
Do the hustle
It would have been difficult for him to change the address on his father’s pension although, it could probably be done with a hanko.
I’m gonna lay odds on him killing his father and hiding the body, but he will never be charged for it. Just another skeleton in the cupboard (under the floor) in Japan. TIJ folks!
sensei258
@ janar - he didn't take the father's body with him he left it in the floor when the house was demolished they found his body later at the wood scrap yard
Serrano
I’m gonna lay odds on him killing his father and hiding the body
I wouldn't bet against that.
ShavedNuts
Maybe the father died and the son found him and didn't have the massive sum demanded for a burial.
sensei258
Unless you have some sort of mental illness the only reason not to tell anyone that your father died is so you can keep getting his pension
Omachi
There is no massive amount of money needed for a simple funeral - just transporting the body to the crematoria and the cremation itself. Maybe 30,000 yen in total. If you really don't have the funds, the ward office will help you get it done.