{"id":12088,"date":"2012-01-26T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-26T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:01:38","slug":"Japanese-man-fakes-own-death-with-brother-s-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12088","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man fakes own death with brother&#8217;s corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EWWWWWWWWWWW!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Japanese man faked his own death by claiming his late brother&#8217;s body was his own, police and media said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even while Tsukasa Oizumi&#8217;s older sibling was alive, he used to use his driving licence to get around the fact that his own had been revoked for repeated traffic offences, the Mainichi daily said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When the brother fell ill and died aged 56 in 2008 Oizumi decided to take over his identity completely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He told authorities that the corpse was his own, and even the doctor who dealt with the brother&#8217;s demise did not suspect anything, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The body was cremated, as is normal in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oizumi, now 58, went on to claim social security benefits in his brother&#8217;s name for caring for their elderly mother at home, it added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But he turned himself in to a local welfare office last June because of &#8220;a guilty conscience,&#8221; the Asahi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police &#8212; who took months to establish the truth of Oizumi&#8217;s confession &#8212; arrested him Wednesday &#8220;for allegedly disguising himself as his dead brother and registering incorrect data for official certificates&#8221;, a spokesman said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EWWWWWWWWWWW! 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