TOKYO: A Japanese woman who lived with her brother’s mummified body for years tried to dispose of his corpse with household rubbish when she finally realised he was dead.
The woman, 49, said she discovered the desiccated cadaver of Masao Tadano as she and another sister tried to move house last November, a police officer told AFP.
It was not known how many years Tadano, who would have been 48 at the time, had been dead, but it was long enough for his body to have become skeletonised, the officer said.