=== start quote === Some cemeteries have been around so long that no one even knows who owns the land, said Koichi Kawano, assistant deputy director for Kumamoto prefecture, a district on the southwestern island of Kyushu where the population has declined 3.1 percent over the past decade. “That’s why people are calling city halls to report abandoned, decrepit cemeteries,” he said. “When you don’t know who manages cemeteries, you will turn to the government as a last resort.” In Hitoyoshi City in Kumamoto prefecture, 43 percent of the 15,123 gravestones were abandoned, according to a 2013 survey. === end quote ===
The photo is only related to this article in that it is of a grave in Kumamoto.
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