India, April 26 -- Unwilling to bear the costs of a funeral for his father, a man in Japan decided to keep his body hidden in a wardrobe at his house for two years, the South China Morning Post said.

56-year-old Nobuhiko Suzuki's actions came to light after he did not open his Chinese restaurant in Tokyo for a week, raising concerns among neighbours. The neighbours subsequently contacted the police and officers reached his house to find his father's skeleton in the wardrobe.

Suzuki told the police that he had hidden the body after his father died at age 86 in January 2023. While it is not known how his father died, Suzuki claimed he just found his father's lifeless body when he came home from work.

"The funeral was expensive," he said,...