‘The incident is extremely regrettable. We’re determined to prevent a recurrence,’ says police official
Imagine you have cremated your husband’s body, which was found in a river in your city. You enter a period of mourning and then begin to remake your life. Now, imagine 11 months later, your supposedly dead husband walking through your front door.
That is what happened to a Japanese woman who in June 2017 was given the body of a man, believed to be her husband, who had been found dead in the Edo River in eastern Toyko.
According to local media, the handover occurred after police examined missing persons reports, and suspected the body might be that of a man in his early 40s from Matsudo, a suburb of Tokyo, who had been reported missing by his family three days earlier.
After the wife and two other relatives examined the body, which was not accompanied by identity papers such as a driving licence, and said it was that of their kin, police gave it over to the family, The Mainichi newspaper reported.
