Man's Body Lies Undisturbed in apartment for 20 Years (NO PICS)
 

TOKYO - The decomposed body of a man dressed in pajamas was discovered in an abandoned Tokyo apartment building 20 years after he is believed to have died, police said Thursday.



A Tokyo Metropolitan Police official said construction workers were preparing to tear down the building earlier this month when they found the man's skeletal remains laying face-up on a mattress on the tatami reed mat floor of a second-floor room.


The morning edition of a newspaper dated Feb. 20, 1984 was on a table nearby and a calendar, opened to the same month, hung on the wall, said the official, who refused to be identified.


The official would not say how the man died. Newspaper reports quoted police as saying that there were no signs of struggle, which led investigators to believe he died of an illness.


The man, identified only as former worker of the company that built the apartments, was in his mid-50s when he divorced his wife, left home and moved into the building in the early 1980s, the official said.


Police believe the man had been unable to repay bank loans and had stopped showing up for work, according to the newspaper reports.


But nobody noticed his death because the real estate agency managing the property went out of business after the building was completed in 1973 without ever having found renters, he said. The building had been unoccupied since it was completed.


The man's remains have been returned to his ex-wife, the official said.

Um....yea bullshit...

Now that is something you don't hear about every day.

that's a fucking long time :helpme

I hope I'll be as missed when I die

It's wild that a building would get built and sit empty. I don't doubt the legitimacy of the story, buy you would think SOMEONE would have paid the bank somethign for it.

what he said..^^

but also to add my :2 cents: you would think that someone, even a vagrant would have gone into the building, especially if it was new and abandoned.

weird story...

any pics?

I call bullshit, the Japanese are not wasteful as to build a building and let it sit there for 20 years :2 cents:

BS

hard 2 believe

that's one miserable death. imagine, your body lying in the open for 20 years and no one even bothered to check on you all those years. a loner by nature, not even a single visitor for 20 years.. tsk tsk tsk:(

That is a strange set of circumstances! :helpme

Heard about this on the radio this morning.

They said the guy had something to do with the construction of the building and that the people he worked for didn't know he was inhabiting the space.

espiclly in Japan where there is like no extra room and people pay a shitload of money for rooms the size of a bathroom!

:arcadefre

Ivy