Lonely death in Japan

Lonely death in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - File photo taken in November 2017 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, shows an apartment room where a 68-year-old man was found dead on a chair alone about a month after his death. More people in Japan are living alone but what is particularly alarming is their identity: mainly men with loose ties to their local communities.

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