An employee adjusts a coffin sold at the Lastel corpse hotel during a photo opportunity in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, September 10, 2011. Death is a rare booming market in stagnant Japan and the Lastel corpse hotel, where bereaved families can check in their dead while they wait their turn in the queue for one of the city’s overworked crematoriums, is just one example of how businessmen are trying to tap it.
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