Following the discovery last week that many of Japan's centenarians were missing, officials started a nationwide search which has turned up a rather grisly finding - the remains of a Tokyo woman stuffed into her son's backpack.
The find comes weeks after the discovery of a more than 30-year-old mummified corpse of a man who had been thought to be celebrating his 111th birthday, which had sparked concern about the very old in Japan.
Officials have fanned out nationwide since then to check on the whereabouts of citizens registered to be over 100, amid concern that relatives are failing to report their deaths in order to draw their pensions.
In the latest find, made by police on Thursday in a Tokyo apartment, the dead woman's 64-year-old son told officials that his mother had died nine years previously, but that he hadn't been able to afford a funeral. Instead he washed her body, broke up the bones and put them in a backpack.
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Thanks to Cecilia Shandeva for this story.
