Rampant, Business Hotel Bodies in Japan

From the outside, Hisayoshi Teramura owned hotel in Yokohama, Japan, looks like an ordinary small inn near the harbor. Nothing interesting, except for the fact that a stay at the hotel are those who are not lifeless.


As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, September 13, 2011, Teramura hotel specialized for bodies waiting to be cremated. By being placed in this hotel, family members and relatives can see the deceased with the best service before it is inserted into the jug in the form of ash.
Like a hotel, this place also provides room service. The tenants provided beautiful coffin, fitted with a beautiful flower arrangements. The body is also treated like a king or queen. They dressed up, applied the best clothes and put on an extra air-cooled rooms.
The hotel has 40 rooms for the corpse. Every evening, families are charged up to 12,000 tenants yen, or about Rp1, 3 million. Teramura admitted his hotel often visited by honeymoon couples who thought it was a place of lodging.
"We know that we've only got a cold room," says Teramura.
The number of deaths is increasing every year in Japan is an attractive business opportunity for people like Teramura. His hotel is the second recorded in all of Japan. The number of people who died making a full cremation places. Some bodies have to queue up for days to turn cremated arrived.
According to the Japanese government in 2010 as many as 1.2 million residents age cap, making Japan the annual death rate reached 0.95 percent. Each year, the number of deaths in Japan increased rapidly. Last year, the Japanese death rate increased to 50,000 people.
Japan's estimated mortality rate would peak in 2040 with 1.66 million people die per year. Predictably, in that year, Japan's population will reduce by 20 million people. This is because the large number of deaths is inversely proportional to the minimal birth rate.
Japanese society deal with death very seriously. Every time death, the family of the deceased out of pocket up to 1.2 million yen, or about Rp135 million for funerals, flowers, caskets and cremation. These businesses accounted for the death of the country's revenue to U.S. $ 21 billion per year.