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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