Abandoning a corpse - Shitai Ikizai

Japanese: 死体遺棄罪 - したいいきざい
Abandoning a corpse - Shitai Ikizai

Abandoning a corpse, bones, hair, or items placed in a coffin is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years (Article 190 of the Penal Code). Damaging a corpse is considered a crime of mutilating a corpse. This crime is generally understood to be a type of crime against social legal interests, as it violates religious customs and practices. This crime is usually committed by moving the location of the corpse, but it can also be committed by omission, such as leaving the corpse as it is, by a person who is legally obligated to bury it. For example, according to legal precedent, if a person leaves the corpse of one's wife or child in a closet and walks away, this crime is committed by omission, but since a murderer does not have the aforementioned obligation to bury, if he or she simply leaves the corpse at the scene after the murder and walks away, this crime is not committed. If the corpse is moved and abandoned in another place after the murder, this crime is committed.

[Tetsuro Nawa]

[Reference] | Crime of Desecrating a Corpse

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

死体、遺骨、遺髪、または棺に納めてある物を遺棄する罪で、3年以下の懲役に処せられる(刑法190条)。死体等を損壊する場合は死体損壊罪にあたる。本罪は宗教的な習俗・慣習に違反する罪であるから、社会法益に対する罪の一種である、と一般に理解されている。本罪は、通常、死体の場所を移動するといった作為により行われるが、法律上の埋葬義務者が死体をそのまま放置する不作為によっても犯されうる。たとえば、判例によれば、自分の妻子の死体を押入れにそのまま放置し立ち去っても、不作為による本罪が成立するが、人を殺害した者には前述の埋葬義務がないから、殺害後、死体を現場に放置して立ち去っただけでは、本罪は成立しない。殺害後に死体を移動して他の場所に遺棄すれば本罪が成立する。

[名和鐵郎]

[参照項目] | 死体損壊罪

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