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After Clearing 3,000 Rooms of People Who Died Alone, Why Does She Turn Them Into Miniatures? Estate Cleaner Miyu Kojima

At 17, a Japanese estate cleaner nearly lost her father to a “lonely death.” Later she walked into thousands of rooms where no one had said goodbye, then shrank them, one by one, and set them before strangers.
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Why Did a Tenant Who Never Paid Rent Late Die in a Pile of Trash? Lonely Deaths Through the Eyes of Japan’s Special Cleaners

For 34 years, a tenant paid his rent on time every month. After he died, 500 bags of trash were cleared from his room. The special cleaner who did the job says a room lays a person’s whole life bare.

After Clearing 3,000 Rooms of People Who Died Alone, Why Does She Turn Them Into Miniatures? Estate Cleaner Miyu Kojima