- 15 Nov 2002
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gee, ten years... from the new zealand herald....
Children didn't know father was dead for ten years
10.03.05 8.20am
Japanese police questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade.
Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka lying on a futon bed at the family's home in Itami city in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan.
Kanaoka's three elderly children, all in their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead.
Children didn't know father was dead for ten years
10.03.05 8.20am
Japanese police questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade.
Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka lying on a futon bed at the family's home in Itami city in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan.
Kanaoka's three elderly children, all in their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead.
