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Elderly people took death into their own hands by simulating their funerals in Saitama, Wednesday. Customers of Japan’s booming ‘end of life’ industry can try out coffins, scatter their ‘own’ ashes and chose their preferred funeral music.
The number of death-related businesses in Japan quadrupled between 2000 and 2013, reaching nearly 2,000 establishments across the country. During that period, the industry's revenue has skyrocketed from 263 billion yen ($2.3 billion; €1.80 billion) to 598 million yen ($5.2 billion; €4.1 billion).
The increase in investment has also seen plenty of Japan's branded creativity and innovative technologies being implemented in the funeral business. Ryogoku Ryoen, a multi-story graveyard in Tokyo, is equipped with a system that retrieves the correct tombstone or urn based on the identity card provided.
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