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No one in Tokyo notices man dead 20 years



Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 10 (UPI) -- A Tokyo man who died in 1984 evidently wasn't close with his family or well-liked at work, as his death went unnoticed until this month.

The unidentified man's skeletal remains were found last week in a tiny apartment in the densely populated Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, the Kyodo news agency reported Thursday.

Newspapers dated 1984 were found beside the body, suggesting the man had been dead for two decades.

He had a wife and children, but none of them ever asked the police to search for him.

Police learned the man used to work for a construction company, but simply stopped showing up at the office about 20 years ago, when he was 57 years old.

The construction company owns the apretment he was found in, and police believe he had settled in it without the company's knowledge.