日本催生“遗体旅馆”

伴随着日本人口老龄化，每年死亡人数渐增，而火葬场供不应求，以至于不少死者遗体来不及火化。瞄准这一需求，日本川崎市商人竹菱寿夫（音译）2014年开办了一家“遗体旅馆”，用于暂时在普通客房内存放等待火化的遗体，眼下生意相当红火。

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.
这家翻新过的旅馆藏身在日本川崎市一处安静的居民街道，银色外观非常简朴，窗户拉着黑色窗帘，居民说这里让人惊悚。

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.
里面就是日本最新兴起的“遗体旅馆”之一，“搜搜旅馆”（音译）。这里名为旅馆，其实是用来存放遗体的地方。由于日本的火葬场供不应求，不少死者的遗体来不及火化。

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.
死者家属只需每天支付9000日元（约合人民币548元），便可将死者遗体存放在这家“搜搜遗体旅馆”内，直到他们找到火葬场。这家遗体旅馆有十个房间，遗体存放最多不能超过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“遗体旅馆”会伪装成正常旅馆，外观看上去与普通旅馆不易区分。那些旅馆大多用冷柜储存遗体，而搜搜遗体旅馆则依靠空调房。

As Japan ages its people are dying off at a faster pace.
日本政府统计数据显示，伴随老龄化现象，日本每年死亡人数呈上升趋势。

（中国日报网英语点津 yaning）