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Friday, November 6, 2009

Japan’s high-tech high-rise graveyards


High-tech and high-rise, the latest Japanese cemeteries offer a convenient and affordable place for souls to rest in peace. The six-story Kouanji (pronounced Koh-Ahn-Jee) Buddhist temple building in downtown Tokyo has inhabitants like no other. With the exception of the resident priest and his family - all occupants of the 6,850 lodgings are dead and resting in peace in vaults deep in storage. Kouanji is able to pack the remains of a maximum of 100,000 people or at least their ashes in one high-tech building has made these graveyard "plots" more accessible and affordable.

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