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For Some of Japan’s Jobless, Homes Just 5 Feet Wide

For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02capsule.html

2010-01-01

hotel coffin Japan unemployment poverty crisis

Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin up for auction

The coffin which used to contain the body of Lee Harvey Oswald is to be sold at auction in a few weeks. The man believed to have shot President John F Kennedy was interred in the pine coffin for almost 20 years.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11886392

2010-12-01

JFK assassination coffin auction

Ghana's amazing coffins

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11879532

2010-12-06

Ghana coffin burial death art