Walk around Osaka and you'll quickly see that most 'parks' comprise eight square feet of mud, a decrepit bench, and a swing for children. No, there isn't much space going around in this part of Japan.

If you see some space in the morning on the way to work, it probably won't be there on the way home, having been built on in the meantime (usually a car park or a block of flats).

The problem is becoming more serious by the day, as it now seems that they don't even have enough space to bury the dead. It appears that any piece of land will do, even some bit of tarmac near an alleyway. Here lies Takafumi Hashimoto. Poor fella.

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