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Motoko Rich, , 尸体住宾馆：日本殡葬新风俗. 纽约时报中文网, July 4, 2017 (photo gallery)
https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20170704/japan-corpse-hotels/
, which is translated from
Motoko Rich, The Crematory Is Booked? Japan Offers Corpse Hotels. For a wait, or a way to scale down rites. New York Times, July 2, 2017 (video).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/ ... -corpse-hotels.html
"The Hotel Relation is what Japanese call an 'itai 遺体 hoteru,' or corpse hotel. * * * Some [corpse hotels] also have climate-controlled coffins with transparent lids so mourners can peer inside.
in Japan: "crematories are struggling to keep up with the sheer number of people dying [of aging]. By custom, Japanese families take the bodies of their loved ones home from the hospital and sit for an overnight wake followed by a service the next morning in the company of neighbors, colleagues and friends. Then, in the afternoon, the body is sent to a crematory. * * [But now] families sometimes have to wait several days before a body can be cremated.
"The corpse hotels offer a practical solution — a place where a body can be stored at low cost until the crematory is ready, and where [because corpse hotels are open 24/7] small, inexpensive wakes and services can be held outside the home. * * * it became difficult — and often impossible — to take corpses into high-rises.
"While Japan has an estimated 5,100 crematories, Tokyo, with a population of more than 13 million, has just 26.
"Japan has funeral parlors [in New England, we call them funeral homes], too
"Last year, 1.3 million people died in Japan, up 35 percent from 15 years earlier, and the annual toll is expected to climb until it peaks at 1.7 million in 2040, according to the Ministry of Labor, Health and Welfare 厚生労働省 (厚労省). About 37 percent of Japanese women who died last year were over 90, with few surviving friends to mourn them. And close to one-fifth of Japanese men never marry or father children, leaving behind few relatives to plan or attend funerals.
"Corpse hotels are more economical than large funeral homes. According to the Japan Consumer Association, the average funeral in Japan runs 1.95 million yen, or about $17,690. The cheapest package at the Hotel Relation costs 185,000 yen, or about $1,768. The package includes flowers, a room for the family to spend the night in the same room as the corpse, a traditional white gown for the deceased, a simply decorated coffin, transport of the body from the hospital and then to the crematory, and an urn to hold the ashes. Each additional night costs 10,800 yen, just under $100.
" 'Itai hoteru' first appeared about five years ago in Japan's largest cities
Note:
(a) The five photos in the cn.nytimes.com includes three (photos) that are in the English-language report. The video clip is not much different from the photo gallery in content.
(b) itai hotels
(i) Hotel Relation ホテル リレーション in Osaka: "Checkout time, for the living and the dead, is usually no later than 3 pm. "
(ii) "Sousou [, a corpse hotel in the Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki City" [神奈川県] 川崎市
(A) The Japanese name of the corpse hotel os そうそう -- there is no kanji. While the corpse hotel's English name is "Sou Sou," the more common transliteration (from Japanese to English) is "Sō Sō."
(B) Japanese-English dictionary:
* sōsō 葬送(P); 送葬 【そうそう】 (n,v): "(1) funeral; burial rites; (2) attendance at a funeral"
(c) "Hiroshi ŌTA 太田 寛, an official at the Japan Society of Environmental Crematories"
(i) 日本環境斎苑協会 (Japanese pronunciation: Nihon kankyō saien kyokai; based in City of Kawasaki)
(ii) 斎苑 is the same as
saijō 斎場 【さいじょう】 (n): "funeral hall"
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