article_snippet.sent: Although police officers will have already removed the often badly decomposed bodies, the majority of the houses are still packed with signs of a once active life - including unwashed dinner plates, unopened letters and calenders several years out of date.
article_snippet.sent: Specialist clean-up crews are on hand to cleanse these 'lonely death' apartments .
article_snippet.sent: : Thankfully, police officers will have already removed the often badly decomposed bodies before the cleaning teams arrive .
article_snippet.sent: This has started becoming a bit more common in the world and This's become more recognized that there's this sort of job,' said Masuda, whose services are required 3-4 times a week in summer when bodies decompose faster.
article_snippet.sent: Masuda's firm works almost exclusively with 'lonely deaths', charging between £450 and £2,000 depending on apartment size.
article_snippet.sent: In a country where around five million elderly people live alone, the number of decaying bodies found in empty homes is expected to soar.
highlights_snippet.sent: Teams of cleaners, known as 'Lonely Death Squads', clear houses where elderly people lay dead for  months .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police remove decomposing corpses but the clean-up crews are faced with houses filled with rubbish and flies .
  