Police were called after staff noticed the man walking around and looking confused. He was unable to recall his own name or his home address, but he did manage to remember his daughter’s name. In March 2011, a 63-year-old man from northeast Japan took his disabled older sister into the mountains of Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, and abandoned her. Her brother confessed to his actions after being arrested three years later for breaking into a donations box at a shrine in Chiba. Why hadn’t the authorities stepped in to help earlier?” asked a poster named Maria on the Japan Today website.

Source: The Star November 29, 2018 23:48 UTC