Funeral Home Boom in Japan!

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00:00Hey guys, at the moment about a third of the population of Japan is over 65 and

00:06about 1 in 10 are over 80 so as a result of that funeral homes are booming as you

00:12can imagine so we see a lot of new funeral homes all these ones that we're

00:17showing you are within a few kilometers of each other and these two are across

00:22the road from each other so added to the fact that as we've showed you in

00:27previous videos the Japanese funeral style is a big event for one day and

00:35then often it goes on for a few days at the funeral home so as a result of that

00:40it's a huge business so we're seeing new funeral homes popping up all over the

00:46place as you can imagine pretty sad but just a fact of life isn't it and this

00:56keep in mind this is just in a not a very big town and these are all within a

01:01few kilometers of each other gives you an idea how busy they are so we're

01:08seeing lots of advertising on television and on the internet this was actually an

01:12ad on YouTube while watching YouTube this popped up starting from $4,000 it

01:19said that would be the base model you would think so yeah huge business the

01:25funeral business in Japan just a part of life isn't it anyway there was that

01:34more videos coming soon