Moeka Iida
speaker
279 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Moeka Iida’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On a recent afternoon I visited an apartment building, but in the past something rather tragic happened in this place.
Moeka Ida is our East Asia reporter.
I press the bell and go inside.
And I'm greeted by a man called Matsubara Panishi.
Matsubara is a comedian in Japan.
Matsubada pulls out his phone and shows me photos of what the room looked like before he moved in.
There was an old lady living alone and she was quite isolated and she was a hoarder.
She passed away and then went unnoticed for days.
By the time she was found, her body was lying there, buried under mountains of rubbish.
For over a decade, Matsupara has lived in houses like this where people have died in tragic or brutal ways.
In one house, a man killed his brother.
In another, a woman hanged herself.
And even the natural deaths are quite grim.
One man died alone and went unnoticed for two years.
As a comedian, he's written memoirs about his experiences, which have also inspired films.
These homes are known as jikobuken in Japanese or incident properties.
Many Japanese people recoil at the thought of living in one.
But now because of rising living costs and housing costs, these properties are looking less unappealing to some tenants.
So in Japan, ancestral worship is a big part of traditional culture.
So when someone passes away, there are all these Buddhist rituals that take place to mourn.
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