{
  "id": 9698453,
  "title": "Japan’s cut-price morgues cash in on legal loopholes as lonely deaths rise",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/japans-cut-price-morgues-cash-in-on-legal-loopholes-as-lonely-deaths",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-25T04:00:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3368738/japans-cut-price-morgues-cash-legal-loopholes-lonely-deaths-rise"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Unregulated companies are running a brisk trade across Japan storing and disposing unclaimed corpses, with a recent report revealing how such “cut-price morgues” are cashing in on legal loopholes to discard the nation’s dead. The business has shed light on the growing number of “lonely deaths” of elderly Japanese as the traditional nuclear family fades. Some industry insiders have expressed shock…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}