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Death industry reaps grim profit as Japan dies

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Sep 10 2011

Death industry reaps grim profit as Japan dies

An employee adjusts flowers in a viewing room, where chilled encoffined corpses are delivered through hatches through an automated storage system, during a photo opportunity at the Lastel corpse hotel in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, September 10, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao

TOKYO (Reuters) - Across from a noodle shop in a Yokohama suburb, Hisayoshi Teramura's inn looks much like any other small lodging that dots the port city. Occasionally, it's even mistaken for a love hotel by couples hankering for some time beneath the sheets.

Tim Kelly

TOKYO
Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:51am EDT

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/12/uk-japan-death-idUSLNE78B02T20110912




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