THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 15, 2024 at 08:00 JST
A cardboard box to cover a coffin bears the word “head” for air transport personnel to know which side is the top of a corpse being delivered. This photo was taken on Dec. 2, 2023, in Tachikawa in western Tokyo. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
The owner of a company transporting corpses of foreign nationals to destinations outside Japan took a phone call from a mortician in Tokyo in January 2023. [Read More]
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