Abstract
Up until the Second World War, the idea of reincarnation was a quite prevalent
concept in Japan, and it was widely believed that the dead would return to the same
family they belonged to. Correspondingly, there appear to have been many cases of the
reincarnation type （CORTs） within the same family. Such same family CORTs are by no
means obsolete in contemporary Japan, and in this article I would like to report a case in
which a dead daughter, who passed away in 2004 at the age of 6, appears to have been
reborn in 2009 as her brother in the same family. At the time of the investigation the
child was 5 years old. The case involves apparent after death communication （ADC） and
announcing dreams. Although the child in this case did not claim that he was his sister
reborn, he made some striking remarks suggesting that he did have memories as his
departed sister. He also played in such a conspicuous way as to remind her mother of
the way her daughter played while she was alive. The present case would be analyzed
in terms of the Strength-of-Case Scale （SOCS）, and some of its notable characteristics
would be compared with those of other cases investigated at the University of Virginia
and incorporated as part of the CORT database being developed there.
