Elderly man lived with wife’s corpse for a year in Japan

AN elderly man in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, lived with the body of his wife for over a year but it was only recently that he found out that she did not have any identity documents, China Press reported.

The corpse was discovered after Okuda Yoshihisa, 74, left it behind when their house was scheduled for demolishment.

Contractors found the highly decomposed corpse when they checked on the unit and alerted police.

Police then arrested Yoshihisa, who claimed to have no idea that his wife, Yumiko, had no documented identity with the Japanese authorities although they were together for 33 years.

Yoshihisa, who met the woman at a nightclub, said he only thought that she might have accidentally lost her identity papers.

The couple, who did not register their marriage, survived on Yoshihisa’s pension.

When Yumiko died at home in October last year, Yoshihisa did not bury her but continued to live with her corpse by placing deodorisers near her body.

The article did not mention why the man chose not to bury his wife.

> Guang Ming Daily reported that a school in Chengdu, China, that conducts classes via livestream in poverty-stricken and rural areas has gone viral on social media.

According to the Chengdu Education Bureau, close to 80,000 students attended the daily les- sons livestreamed from Chengdu No. 7 High School in Sichuan province.

Some 72,000 students have completed their schooling via the livestream lessons, with most going on to colleges and 88 receiving tertiary education in China’s top universities.

The article, which was written by a local newspaper in China, was viewed 82 million times on social media and reposted 27,000 times on Weibo.