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    Japan’s cut-price morgues cash in on legal loopholes as lonely deaths rise

    South China Morning Post
    September 25, 2026
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    Japan’s cut-price morgues cash in on legal loopholes as lonely deaths rise

    Unregulated companies are running a brisk trade across Japan storing and disposing unclaimed corpses, with a recent report revealing how such “cut-price morgues” are cashing in on legal loopholes to discard the nation’s dead. The business has shed light on the growing number of “lonely deaths” of el

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