Photo is of a streetcar in Matsuyama made up to look like an old steam train. This one carries people to Dogo Onsen, a place made famous by Soseki in the novel Botchan.
…t too kind about the city (Matsuyama), but he enjoyed the hot springs.
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Street Train in Japan! [HDR Pic]
A nationwide search for missing centenarians in Japan has led to another grisly discovery — the remains of a Tokyo woman who was believed to be 104 stuffed into her son’s backpack for nearly a decade. “I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack.”
…TOKYO (AFP) A nationwide search for missing centenarians in Japan has led to another grisly discovery — the remains of a Tokyo woman who was believed to be 104 stuffed into her son’s backpack for nearly a decade.
The police find at their apartment came weeks after the discovery of the more than 30-year-old mummified corpse of a man who had been thought to be celebrating his 111th birthday sparked concern about the very old in Japan.
Officials have fanned out nationwide since then to check on the whereabouts of citizens registered to be over 100, amid concern that some relatives have failed to report their deaths in order to draw their pension payouts.
In the latest find, made by police Thursday in an apartment in Tokyo’s Ota ward, the dead woman’s 64-year-old son told officials that his mother had died nine years ago, but that he hadn’t been able to afford a funeral for her.
“She died in about June 2001 in our house,” the man reportedly said.
“I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the…
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Grisly find in search for Japanese centenarians