By 2035 more than one-quarter of Tokyo will be over 65, and many of those people will live alone. In Shinjuku’s Golden Gai, an entertainment district lined with hundreds of tiny bars ...

Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal 2023 and were subsequently cremated or buried by local ...

TOKYO: (Bernama-Kyodo) Approximately 42,000 bodies went unclaimed in Japan in fiscal 2023 and were subsequently cremated or ...

Most municipalities did not have protocol for dealing with how long bodies should be kept before cremation. Read more at ...