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olice in Hiroshima City, Japan, were surprised to receive an early morning call on their emergency number from Toshiko Ujibe, 76, who told them: “There’s an unpleasant odour coming from my son’s corpse, and I don’t know what to do.” Rather than provide advice about the smell the despatcher instead sent both the police and the fire department to the flat that Ujibe had shared with her 53-year-old son, Kenji (or Satoshi in some reports). On arrival, they found a man lying face up on his futon with multiple lacerations around his neck; he had clearly been dead for some time. On being questioned, Ujibe said that Kenji had died a while ago, and post-mortem examination
