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Police in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday arrested a 40-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his 41-year-old wife at their apartment.
According to police, Mirai Kuraoka called 110 at around 7 p.m. on Wednesday and said his wife Miyuki wasn’t breathing and appeared to be dead, Fuji TV reported. Police went to the apartment and found the woman’s body, which had begun to decay, lying face-up on a mattress and covered with a blanket.
Police said there were no external signs of injury on the body and that Kuraoka told them his wife had been dead for several days. However, he did not say why he waited so long before reporting her death.
Police said an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
© Japan Today
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Harry_Gatto
1st paragraph, this, "abandoning the wife of his" should read "abandoning the body of his"
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602miko
Wow, how can anyone not reporting the dead body and sleep like a normal?
Jonathan Prin
Psychological shock possible.
Anyway, what difference if natural death. He did not benefit of that situayion in any way.
Gaijinjland
I'm just speculating but if there were no external signs of injury, he probably didn't kill her. He probably went into shock and grief. That would explain him not immediately reporting the death. And if he was in a manic state, I'm guessing he did not sleep.