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The hotel for the dead in Japan
How would you feel if you kept the bodies in the neighborhood? Residents of a quiet residential area in the Japanese city of Kawasaki live close to dead. Now these places are gaining popularity in Japan. Families can rent a room in hotel «Sousou» for a daily fee of 9,000 Japanese yen (£ 58, € 74, $ 84), to save the body of a deceased relative for four days, until they find a crematorium. The hotel has about 10 rooms for rent, where corpses are kept in air-conditioned rooms. In most other bodies such establishments are kept in refrigerators.
Rising demand is forcing open similar institutions in other cities of the country. According to government estimates, the expected increase in mortality in Japan, if it is more than 20 000 deaths per year, is expected to grow to 1, 7 million. Per year by 2040 and already 20 million. People by 2040, unless there is a significant influx of immigrants.
Rising demand is forcing open similar institutions in other cities of the country. According to government estimates, the expected increase in mortality in Japan, if it is more than 20 000 deaths per year, is expected to grow to 1, 7 million. Per year by 2040 and already 20 million. People by 2040, unless there is a significant influx of immigrants.
