The donation of bodies for anatomical training has increased dramatically in Japan in recent years, in what experts say is a shift in attitudes to death in the country's aging society.Some 296,000 people had offered to donate their bodies to universities as of March 31, 2018, compared with about 68,000 in 1985, with the figure increasing by 8,000 annually in recent years, according to Tokushi Kaibo Zenkoku Rengokai, an association set up in 1985 to encourage the practice, known as "kentai" in Japanese.Such is the availability of bodies that some universities have even stopped accepting dona…READ FULL ARTICLE
