A man with a disability was forced to live in a wooden cage on the premises of his house in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, for a long time, possibly more than 20 years, it was learned Saturday.<\/b>
\nA man with a disability was forced to live in a wooden cage on the premises of his house in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, for a long time, possibly more than 20 years, it was learned Saturday.
No notable health damage on the 42-year-old man has been confirmed, but the city government has taken him into protective custody at a welfare facility, suspecting that he may have been abused. The Hyogo prefectural police department received a report about the man from the government in February. The father of the man, Yoshitane Yamasaki, was arrested on Saturday on confinement charges. He admitted the charges, citing violent behavior of his son, investigative sources said. The father, 73, allegedly confined his eldest son into a wooden cage about 1.8 meters wide, about 90 centimeters deep and some one meter high between around 10 a.m. on Jan. 18 and around 10 p.m. on Jan. 19.
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