2016 Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 3-12
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.
