Man fakes his own death with brother's corpse to escape debts
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WilliB
This looks like a case where nobody benefits from his confessing to the crime. Who will care for the sick mother now, if he goes to jail?
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gaijinfo
Wow, a guy confessed, and it takes the cops months just to verify that it's true. Imagine if they had to build the case all on their own.
And I concur that he shouldn't have confessed. He had a good thing going. Why in the world would he feel guilty?
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Himajin
I doubt that's exactly what he said, Michiru....
gaijininfo, without his or his dead brother's fingerprints to identify the brothers, they had to follow the paper trail.
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Himajin
(is kind of a bad translation)
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Mirai Hayashi
Without a social security numbering system, I can almost bet that there is a lot more cases of this under the radar.
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Ciaela
Isn't this the plof of that American Drama "Ringer"? Minus Sarah Michelle Gellar?
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Ciaela
*plot. awk.
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mastertigurius
I'm sure he meant well and all, considering he wanted to take care of his mother...however, stealing a dead person's identity (one's own brother, no less) to collect his social welfare checks is equivalent to taking a giant dump on his grave - of course he would feel bad about it.
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Al Stewart
Um...finger prints? dental records? medical records? Were they twins?
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Wurthington
It is not a story you'd have heard in the Japan of old. Years ago everybody knew everybody in their neighborhood in Japan... now a days you could live for years next to somebody and never meet or know them. Which would make stories like this somewhat less surprising.
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Elvensilvan
As far as I have experienced here in Japan, you can easily change doctors or hospitals, although they'll ask you to fill up a form, no one would ask for your previous medical or dental doctor's info.
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Hide Suzuki
@Mirai
Even with social security numbers in America, identity theft happens all the time.
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tokyokawasaki
He's just being corrupt. He has a great role models. (Senior law makers, politicians andJ biz CEO's)...
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
Did the dead brother have a wife, kids, girl friend?
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brknarm
Al: Twins? Try this...Tsukasa Oizumi is now 58, older sibling died in 2008 at 56. That's an age difference of 1-2 yrs.
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southsakai
Some things are best kept quiet. But a guilty conscience will break a many. The first comment by WilliB was dead true.
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Nessie
Taxpayers like me benefit when fraudsters are caught.
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Spidey
This just goes to show that no matter what mold you make, however bizzare it may be, you'll always find someone to fit it.
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Nicky Washida
I am guessing if there were no suspicious circumstances around the death they wouldnt even bother with dental records or finger printing? as for medical records - same thing I would think plus medical records here are very fragmented between clinics?
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Samantha Zoe Aso
Wonder if I could get away with claiming my dead husband's body is mine!
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almostshat
So, this bloke, all his life he was thinking "I wish I had a body like yours". And finally his dream came true. Never give up your dreams.
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Pizzaface
I was thinking to carve up a one yen coin into quarter slices, and send you a piece to double your personal taxpayer benefit, but then I realized that with police time, the trial and the jail time, you are probably two pieces in the hole.
Makes zero sense to me. Did he just say it was for his mom or is there some system where a person claims benefits for the sake of another? And why not just claim in his own name? Was he double dipping?
I am also curious who he owed these debts to.
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TrentonGaijin
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure if it would work.... When Tsukasa Oizumi "died," wouldn't the creditors have gone looking for his heirs to take over the debt? In this case that would be Tsukasa Oizumi's older "brother"- he'd inherit his own debt! The only benefit he'd get is a driver's license & social security (which he'd have ot use to take care of his mother). I suspect it was this more than a guilt conscience that led him to turn himself in....
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cleo
You can opt not to inherit when the liabilities are greater than the assets.
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yasukuni
"He told authorities that the corpse was his own,"
I love that line! Made me remember the times I've been to immigration or the city office here. You could probably say, "Hi, I'm dead, that's my corpse over there", and some civil servant would say, "Okay, take a number, fill out this form and wait."
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Fadamor
I wonder if the mother finally died, or was otherwise being cared for by an institution and that's why the sudden confession now.
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almostshat
How can so many of you people take all this nonsense so seriously? life in Japan is one continuous black comedy
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gelendestrasse
You have to admit that this was one of the more creative scams that we've seen. I expect the guy would have gotten away with it if he hadn't cracked.
@almost I don't see Japan as black comedy, I find it very curious and interesting. Guess that's just the difference between you and me.
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Arthur Dumbolov
Heh... Sneaky bastard!
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miyazawa3
You clever man
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cactusJack
The old bait and switch. Classic.
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602miko
his concience killing him.
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darkwolf15455
its disrespect to take a dead guys identity even if its his brother.
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