Death industry reaps grim profit as Japan dies

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/12/idINIndia-59285020110912?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&dlvrit=70622


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.

But Teramura's place is neither a love nest nor a pit stop for tired travellers. The white and grey tiled building is a corpse hotel, its 18 deceased guests tucked up in refrigerated coffins.

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The daily rate at Lastel, as it is known, is 12,000 yen ($157). For that fee, bereaved families can check in their dead while they wait their turn in the queue for one of the city's overworked crematoriums.

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"There's been a rush into the market," says Teramura, who founded cemetery developer company Nichiryoku 45 years ago. Even Japan's second biggest retail chain, Aeon, rail companies and the nation's biggest farmers association, Japan Agriculture are getting into the business, he notes.

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CREMATORIUM QUEUE when will we next hear that and in what country? because, surely we will.

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1. Statistical, baby-boom aging is just horrible!

When will we stop the madness??

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