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As Japan's population rapidly ages and more seniors find themselves living on their own, many are also dying alone, victims of "kodokushi" (lonely death) who only get noticed well after the fact.
News On Japan 2010
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Then he started noticing something else: thick, dark stains shaped like a human body, the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse. kodokushi, or lonely deaths.
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Then he started noticing something else: thick, dark stains shaped like a human body, the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse. kodokushi, or lonely deaths.
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Then he started noticing something else: thick, dark stains shaped like a human body, the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse. kodokushi, or 'lonely deaths.'
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