Japanese Man Hides Father's Body In Wardrobe For Two Years. Here's Why

A Japanese man hid his father's body in a wardrobe for two years to avoid funeral costs. Police discovered the skeleton after neighbors reported the man missing.

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Source : AI

Unwilling to bear the cost of a funeral, a Japanese man concealed his father’s body in a wardrobe at home for two years after his death. According to Sump.com, the action of the man came to light after prompting a police probe.

Nobuhiko Suzuki, 56, had not opened his Chinese restaurant in Tokyo for a week, raising concerns among neighbours who then contacted the police, according to the reports from Fuji News as reported by sump.com.

When police officials arrived to check, they discovered the skeleton of his father in the wardrobe instead of him. Suzuki had hidden the body since his father passed away in January 2023. Suzuki claimed that he returned home that day to find his father’s lifeless body. However, the circumstances surrounding his father’s death are still unclear.

“The funeral was expensive,” he admitted when explaining his decision to conceal the body.

The authorities stated that Suzuki initially felt guilty over his actions. However, he eventually felt relieved, believing that his father should be blamed for his death. Suzuki has been arrested and is now under probe for allegedly embezzling his father’s pension.

The case has sparked mixed reactions among Japanese internet users. Some speculated that Suzuki aimed to collect additional pensions, while others expressed empathy, noting the complexities surrounding funerals for those who lack experience.

According to the report, this is not the first incident of its kind in Japan.

In 2023, a 56-year-old unemployed man was sued for hiding his 72-year-old mother’s body at home from 2019 to 2022 while embezzling about two million yen from her pensions during that period, reports scmp.com.

The man confessed in court that he concealed his mother’s body to avoid the cost of funeral and continued to claim her pensions.