A 75-year-old woman from Japan was arrested after she admitted to keeping her daughter's corpse in a freezer for two decades.

The woman, who presented herself to the police with a family member, stated that she had kept the body of her daughter, born in 1975. The investigation led to the discovery of the body in a freezer, in an advanced state of decomposition. The police have begun an autopsy to determine the cause of death, and the woman has been arrested for abandoning the corpse. She had been living alone after the recent death of her husband.