
Ep53 Gossip at the Corpse Cart
Wine & Crime
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The Rise of Corpse Hotels in Japan
The demand comes from Japan's accelerating rate of old age deaths each year approximately 20,000 more people die than in the year before. The Sousu corpse hotel is run by a guy named Tisao Takigishi. It uses air conditioned rooms to store the bodies instead of direct refrigeration.
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