Falsification of Postmortem Documents, Cause of Death, and Suspected Obstruction of Justice
This page explains the legal irregularities surrounding the death of the patient at Toride Kyodo Hospital (now JA Toride Medical Center) in September 2010. The findings are based on primary documents, receipts, the alleged autopsy certificate, and the family’s 15-year independent investigation.
The patient died in the hospital on 12 September 2010 after what was explained to the family as “DIC following myocardial infarction.” However, the head CT at the time of death clearly showed a large acute subdural hematoma, which is inconsistent with a purely medical (non-traumatic) cause. The family requested a judicial autopsy.
From this point onward, the hospital and police actions display a pattern of systematic falsification and obstruction.
A man claiming to be the “Chief of Criminal Affairs” at Toride Police Station visited the family but did not present a police badge, only a business card. He refused to take the family’s account, saying he “must remain neutral.”
The man claimed(recordings)
The “police officer” came to the family's home on the evening of 14 September and handed the family a “postmortem inspection certificate” (“死体検案書”). It was:
Document analysis and handwriting comparison indicate that the handwriting resembles that of the hospital’s cardiology chief, not the forensic professor. This strongly suggests that the certificate was fabricated within the hospital.
The man also presented a handwritten receipt for ¥50,000, claiming it was the “judicial autopsy fee” he had paid on behalf of the family. The family reimbursed him.
In Japan, judicial autopsies are 100% state-funded. Families are never billed. Therefore, the receipt is a forgery, and the payment constitutes unlawful extraction of money under false pretenses.
A copy of the September 2010 hospital invoice shows a charge of ¥5,250 for “document fee.” This amount exactly matches the standard fee for issuing a death certificate at the hospital group.
This proves:
Under Japanese law, a death can never have both a hospital death certificate and a judicial autopsy certificate. Issuing both is impossible and constitutes legal falsification.
The family never received the hospital-issued death certificate and never submitted the legally required “death notification” to the municipal office.
Yet the man’s death was fully processed:
When the family later checked the municipal records, the death notification had been submitted under the family member’s name—even though she never filed anything.
The only person who asked the family about the man’s “occupation” (a mandatory field in the death notification) was the same “police officer” who delivered the forged documents.
Several facts converge:
When the body was returned home, the skull had been sawn open and the thoracoabdominal cavity was crushed and deformed. The family had provided no consent for any procedure other than a judicial autopsy.
If no judicial autopsy occurred, this amounts to:
The key that would have revealed the entire falsification scheme—the September 2010 receipt showing the ¥5,250 death certificate fee—was systematically withheld:
All of this occurred because the receipt directly exposes the issuance of a death certificate and, therefore, the false claim of judicial autopsy.
The falsification of the patient’s cause of death is not an isolated clerical error but a coordinated operation involving:
The scale and complexity of the fabrication indicate systemic corruption, not individual misconduct. The case may represent only one example among many unreported or unrecognized deaths classified as “natural” despite suspicious circumstances.