Unexplained death - Henshi

Japanese: 変死 - へんし

In forensic medicine, a body that is found under abnormal circumstances, regardless of the medical cause of death, is called an unnatural death. Unnatural deaths include deaths caused by external factors, deaths that are suspicious and are only determined to have been caused by illness after an autopsy, and even deaths with unknown causes. In contrast, in criminal law, an unnatural death is a death that is clearly due to an accident other than natural causes, illness, or natural disaster, and is not thought to have been the result of a criminal act. A judicial autopsy is conducted on unnatural deaths (Criminal Procedure Code, Article 229, Paragraph 1), and if the results reveal suspicion of a crime, an investigation (e.g., verification) is conducted by the investigative agency.

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Japanese:

法医学上では，医学的な死因はどうであろうと，異常な状況下にある死体を変死体という。外因死，あるいは疑わしいので死体解剖して初めて病死と判明するもの，さらには死因不明のものなどが変死に含められている。これに対して刑事法学上では，自然死，病死，天災死以外の事故原因による死亡であることが明らかで，犯罪行為によるものではないかと考えられる死体をいう。変死者に対しては司法検視が行われ (刑訴法 229条1項) ，その結果，犯罪嫌疑が明らかになれば捜査機関による捜査 (たとえば検証) が行われる。

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