News Program Builds Replica of Mummy Man’s House
In its report on the family in Tokyo that had been collecting pension payments on behalf of a 30-year-old corpse that that they “lived” with, NTV’s “Bankisha” news program took some extraordinary measures. Instead of following the trend of using computer animation, they friggin’ built a full-sized replica of the man’s house inside a studio:
A mannequin was placed in the bed where police found the “111-year-old” man. The “Bankisha” staff took great care to arrange the room’s appearance so that it matched police reports, even finding some newspapers from 1978 (the last probable year of the man’s life).
Although his family has come up with the excuse that they had not disturbed him for 30 years because they respected his plan to become a Buddha, no religious books were found in the man’s room.
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