After the sudden death of her husband, a Japanese woman was left not only with grief, but also with debts and financial mysteries she never knew existed. (French information photo)
[Financial Channel/Comprehensive Report] A 44-year-old woman in Japan has been married to her husband for many years. Not only does the couple have a harmonious relationship, but they also have a pair of children. The family often goes on trips together and seems to live a happy life. Unexpectedly, her husband suddenly passed away due to illness this year. When her wife was handling the funeral arrangements and sorting out her husband's finances, she discovered one after another the financial problems that her husband had concealed, and even left a shocking debt of about 2 million yen (approximately NT$420,000), which shocked her.
Japanese media reported that 44-year-old Shiori (pseudonym) said that she and her husband were friends in college. They reconnected after graduation. They found that they were very attracted to each other and got married when they were 28 years old. The couple has a daughter and a son. The husband also attaches great importance to family. He often arranges family outings on weekends. Even if it is just to a park near his home, the children have a lot of fun.
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The couple is a dual-income family. They usually share living expenses in proportion to their income, and save the rest of their income separately. Therefore, Shiori does not know how much savings her husband has accumulated.
Because my husband and his family have a good relationship, they traveled together as usual during New Year's Day this year. Unexpectedly, after the holiday, a sudden accident completely changed the family's life.
The husband was scheduled to return to work on the 6th, and he went out with Shiori that morning. The two said goodbye after confirming the time to return home from get off work at the transfer station. However, about six hours later, Shiori suddenly received a notification from her husband's company that her husband had collapsed. When she rushed to the hospital, her husband had passed away.
Doctors determined that the husband died due to aortic dissection. After her husband passed away, when Shiori endured her grief and dealt with her husband's work-related matters, she unexpectedly discovered that her husband's financial situation during his lifetime was completely different from what she knew. I learned that my husband was supposed to have an internal company savings, but actually only had about 100,000 yen (approximately NT$20,000) left.
What makes her even more unbelievable is that her husband told her before his death that this deposit should have accumulated to millions of yen. With the investigation and questioning, other financial problems that the husband had concealed gradually emerged, including the fact that the life insurance he originally held had been terminated. What shocked her even more was that her husband had borrowed money from many colleagues and friends from his student days.
Someone at her husband's company told Shiori that at least several employees had lent money to her husband, each with an amount of about 100,000 yen, and the number of people involved even exceeded 10. Later, even my husband’s friends from his student days said one after another that the husband still owed 50,000 yen (approximately NT$10,000), 30,000 yen (approximately NT$6,046) and other loans.
Currently, within her control, the total debt left by her husband is about 2 million yen, which she has been responsible for repaying. But she also worries whether other debts will surface in the future. Shiori admitted that the financial mystery left behind after her husband's sudden death also made her begin to wonder whether the husband she knew in the past was the person she thought she was.
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