Dying alone in Japan: the industry devoted to disposing of what´s left behind
(WorldNews Japan)

Jeongja Han dumps a drawer of pens and lighters into a plastic rubbish bag while her client, a recently widowed woman in her mid-50s who asked not to be named, sits on a stool, watching. The woman’s husband died in a car accident a few weeks ago, leaving her to clean out the spacious two-bedroom flat they occupied for 30 years in Tokyo’s trendy Ebisu neighbour­hood. They had no children to lay claim to heirlooms, so her directions to Han were simple: “Get rid of everything......