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Lodging houses used as morgues in Japan create unease among residents Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If you're not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ One private residence in Osaka, licensed to take in lodgers, has been used as a temporary storage facility for dead bodies. | KYODO Kyodo Apr 20, 2021 Osaka – In a quiet residential neighborhood of southern Osaka, the transition of a private house licensed to take in lodgers into a so-called corpse hotel has left locals up in arms. “The corpse was ...

Lodging houses used as morgues create unease among residents Today 06:00 am JST Today | 06:39 am JST OSAKA In a quiet residential neighborhood of southern Osaka, the transition of a private house licensed to take in lodgers into a so-called "corpse hotel" has left locals up in arms. "The corpse was carried in wrapped in a cloth," a local man in his 70s recently explained as he recounted his astonishment at seeing a body arrive last December at the house with its dingy and blackened walls in the Sumiyoshi Ward district of the city. "I could see it being laid out in the garde...

Nurses at Osaka Gyomeikan Hospital help treat a COVID-19 patient with serious symptoms. (Provided by Osaka Gyomeikan Hospital) OSAKA—The health care system in Osaka Prefecture is now in such a critical situation that hospitals fear they may soon have to turn away seriously ill COVID-19 patients. There are now more patients with severe symptoms than the number of available hospital beds for their treatment in the prefecture. The prefecture has squeaked by after some medical institutions initially designated to treat those with minor or medium symptoms were forced to treat patients with seri...

Coronavirus pandemic hits Japan’s feared Yakuza in the pocket Closure of restaurants, bars and nightlife venues deprive underworld groups of their protection money and other revenues 13 April 2021 • 5:15am Restaurants, bars and nightlife venues were ordered to close in the early phases of the health crisis Credit: Bloomberg The coronavirus pandemic has delivered a body blow to Japan’s feared Yakuza underworld groups, which were already under growing pressure from authorities trying to stamp out “antisocial elements”. The National Police Agency has reported that membership of Japan�...

Membership in Japanese criminal syndicates dropped for the 16th straight year in 2020