Tokyo man's body found 20 years after death

The skeleton of a man dressed in pyjamas has been discovered in an abandoned Tokyo apartment building 20 years after he is believed to have died.

The skeleton of a man dressed in pyjamas has been discovered in an abandoned Tokyo apartment building 20 years after he is believed to have died.

Construction workers were preparing to tear down the building when they found the man’s skeletal remains laying face-up on a mattress on the floor of a second-floor room.

Crime is not suspected.

A newspaper dated February 20, 1984, was on a nearby table and a calendar opened to the same month hung on the wall, said police

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