日本催生“遺體旅館”

伴隨著日本人口老齡化，每年死亡人數漸增，而火葬場供不應求，以至于不少死者遺體來不及火化。瞄準這一需求，日本川崎市商人竹菱壽夫（音譯）2014年開辦了一家“遺體旅館”，用于暫時在普通客房內存放等待火化的遺體，眼下生意相當紅火。

Tucked away in a quiet residential street in Kawasaki city in Japan is a refurbished workshop with a plain silver exterior and black draped windows that residents describe as creepy.
這家翻新過的旅館藏身在日本川崎市一處安靜的居民街道，銀色外觀非常簡樸，窗戶拉著黑色窗簾，居民說這里讓人驚悚。

The business inside, Sousou, is one of Japan's latest so-called corpse hotels, a camouflaged morgue used to store some of Japan's mounting pile of bodies waiting for a spot in one of the nation's overworked crematoriums.
里面就是日本最新興起的“遺體旅館”之一，“搜搜旅館”（音譯）。這里名為旅館，其實是用來存放遺體的地方。由于日本的火葬場供不應求，不少死者的遺體來不及火化。

At a daily rate of 9,000 yen ($82) family members can keep their deceased relative in one of Sousou's 10 rooms for up to four days until a crematorium can be found.
死者家屬只需每天支付9000日元（約合人民幣548元），便可將死者遺體存放在這家“搜搜遺體旅館”內，直到他們找到火葬場。這家遺體旅館有十個房間，遺體存放最多不能超過4天。

Unlike other such morgues-in-disguise, which try to blend in by looking like hotels, Sousou doesn’t refrigerate corpses, relying on air conditioned rooms instead.
一些“遺體旅館”會偽裝成正常旅館，外觀看上去與普通旅館不易區分。那些旅館大多用冷柜儲存遺體，而搜搜遺體旅館則依靠空調房。

As Japan ages its people are dying off at a faster pace.
日本政府統計數據顯示，伴隨老齡化現象，日本每年死亡人數呈上升趨勢。

（中國日報網英語點津 yaning）