Children didn't know father was dead for ten years

Japanese police questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade.

Police found the body of Kyujiro Kanaoka lying on a futon bed at the family's home in Itami city in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan.

Kanaoka's three elderly children, all in their 70s or older, told police they thought their father was still alive but that one of them recently had consulted a relative about the possibility that he might be dead.