A family kept their daughter's body for weeks, believing that she was alive!

Photo from "Daily Mail"

A Japanese family kept the body of their daughter, whose body they found dead in their home in Yorkshire for weeks, as they believed she was still alive, according to the British Daily Mail.

The newspaper added that the police found the body of Rena Yasutake, who was 49 years old, in her bed in her room on the upper floor of the house, after she had apparently died from not eating.

Investigators discovered that the family, consisting of an elderly mother and three brothers, lived in isolation from the world without modern technology such as television or radio, and they even communicated with each other using a "unique" Japanese accent, while they were subject to an investigation at Northallerton Coroner Court.

The police discovered Rita's body after the pharmacist suspected the family that they had bought materials that would embalm the bodies. The pharmacist, in turn, informed the police, who discovered the body more than five weeks after the death.

Rita had lived with her mother, Michiko, now 80, and brother Takahiro, 51, and sister Yoshika, 56, for 20 years. They had left Japan after the mother married a British man, after the death of her first husband, and moved to Helmsley.

Rena was a talented artist, having been privately educated at Queen Mary School and then Cambridge University.

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