When police officers found a 27-year-old woman lying near a river with an empty bottle of sleeping pills nearby last Sunday, they assumed that she was just one more addition to the long list of young Japanese who have been committing suicide these days. The paramedic on the scene found a body that showed no pulse or pupil movement, with rigor mortis already seeming to have to set in.

At the morgue, however, an official performing a more detailed post-mortem exam detected a slight pulse which led to the discovery that the woman was still alive!

After being rushed to a hospital the woman regained consciousness and is making a recovery.