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Japan woman hid mom's frozen corpse for 10 years: reports

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Agence France-Presse

<p>TOKYO — A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother&#x27;s corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday.</p><p>Police told AFP that Yumi Yoshino, 48, was held &quot;on suspicion of abandoning and hiding a female body&quot; found Wednesday inside the freezer in a Tokyo apartment.</p><div><strong>RELATED STORIES: </strong></div><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/09/30/20/man-admits-to-killing-9-youths-dismembering-bodies-near-tokyo">Man admits to killing 9 youths, dismembering bodies near Tokyo</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/12/23/20/japans-twitter-killer-drops-death-sentence-appeal">Japan&#x27;s &#x27;Twitter killer&#x27; drops death sentence appeal</a></li></ul><p>Yoshino said she hid the body 10 years ago because she &quot;didn&#x27;t want to move out&quot; of the home she shared with her mother, after finding her dead, local media reported, citing unnamed police sources.</p><p>The mother, thought to be aged around 60 at the time of her death, was named on the lease of the apartment in a municipal housing complex, Kyodo News said.</p><p>Yoshino had been forced to leave the apartment in mid-January after missing rent payments, the reports said, and a cleaner discovered the body in a freezer hidden in a closet.</p><p>An autopsy could not determine the time and cause of the woman&#x27;s death, the reports said.</p><div><strong>kh/kaf/jah</strong></div>

<p>A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother's corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday.</p>

A Japanese woman who said she hid her mother's corpse in a freezer in her apartment for a decade told police she feared eviction if the death was discovered, media reported Saturday.