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Re:Japanese Suicide Apartments by gizmo686 on Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:54PM (#10724109)
I am not a lawyer, nor do I have any familiarity with the Japanese legal system. My guess would be that the landlord can make a claim against the dead tenant's estate. Because this estate would usually be inherited by the family, and the family is the party responsible for handling it, this situation is effectively the landlord suing the family.

And, of course, as the article identifies, you have families who do not fight it, in which case no legal justification is necessary.

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Re:Japanese Suicide Apartments by arielweisberg on Saturday December 12, 2015 @03:59PM (#10724130)
A claim on the estate isn't a claim on the family. AFAIK you can't inherit debt or liability unless you actually signed on to the debt.

So they can sue the estate, but they can't sue the family. They have no claim on assets that are not part of the estate.

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