[New Book] A Detailed Record by Cleaners Who Have Seen Over 100,000 Sites of Lonely Deaths, Crime Scenes, and Hoarders' Homes! "Scary Rooms Seen by Special Cleaners" to be Released July 2nd

"Kansai Clean Service" staff recount their terrifying experiences from special cleaning sites in their latest book, "Scary Rooms Seen by Special Cleaners" (Gakken). This is a short-form reportage that delves deeper than their previous co-authored book with Maruyama Gonzales, "Ie Kowa" (Takeshobo), released late last year. The release date is July 2nd.

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[What is Special Cleaning?]

Special cleaning refers to the specialized work of restoring properties to their original condition in situations involving the decomposition and contamination of bodies from lonely deaths, suspicious deaths, suicides, or in cases of hoarded homes, which are difficult for regular cleaning companies to handle.

With the aging population and the increase in single-person households, more people are dying alone without anyone to see them off.

In modern society, where lonely deaths are on the rise, the demand for special cleaning is increasing year by year.

[Book Contents]

This documentary work compiles the real-life experiences of Noriyuki Kamezawa and Yoshitaka Kondo from Kansai Clean Service, who have been involved in over 100,000 special cleaning sites.

Kamezawa, the company's founder and a Shingon Buddhist monk for the past three years, has comforted bereaved families while performing memorial services for the deceased and their belongings at the sites. In this book, he focuses on the "life" and "way of life" of the deceased in his reportage.

Kondo, on the other hand, has experienced numerous inexplicable events at work and is now also active as a "ghost storyteller." He has written this book focusing on the eerie phenomena that cannot be scientifically proven, the lingering presences.

The book contains 22 terrifying experiences that only these two special cleaners can tell.

[Special Cleaning Sites]

Special cleaning sites present harsh realities. In the humid summer, the decomposition of bodies accelerates, and traces of the deceased, such as odors and bodily fluids, spread throughout the room.

Even in such environments, "traces of life" always remain.

A calendar with a stopped time, family photos in the room. Leftover food in the refrigerator reveals the deceased's life without concealment. A clock, with its owner absent, still ticks away.

What we confront at accident sites is not just "death." It is the "time they lived."

Lonely deaths, where individuals quietly fall through the cracks of society and die unnoticed, are particularly filled with the lingering presence of both life and death throughout the room. It is saturated with the unseen screams of society.

A column also provides guidance on how to prevent isolation.

▼Table of Contents

・The House Where Beasts Dwell

・A Death No One Mourned

・Karagara

・The House That Invites Disaster

・Fufufu

・The Doll in the Red Kimono

・The Perpetrator's Mother

・The Brother Who Waited

・The Kind Older Sister

・The Freezer That Must Not Be Opened

・Animal Breeding Factory

・Don't Move

・Xmas

・Family in the Trash

・Dream Skyscraper

・Holding Hands

・To Mother

・Mother Who Became Alone

・The Scum's House

・Body Disposal

・Never-Ending Caregiving

・My Own Funeral Portrait

◆Column

・This Job Began with Sorting My Grandmother's Belongings

・The Reason a Special Cleaner Became a Buddhist Monk

・What Can Be Done to Prevent Isolation

A flock of crows circled over the residential area.

There must have been about 50 of them. Their caws echoed incessantly.

In a quiet residential area in Kyoto Prefecture, where many detached houses stood side-by-side, this one house was peculiar.

Crows were densely perched on the roof.

"Stray cats, raccoon dogs, weasels, rats... various types of animals frequently enter and exit."

Local residents reported to the police on a spring day.

This house, already shunned by neighbors as a hoarder's home, was clearly something more.

In this area with not that many animals, it was unprecedented for so many different types of animals to gather at one house.

"Animals I don't see around here are wandering around this house."

"A stray cat came out of this house carrying something."

Local residents spoke of the unusual changes over the past month.

(Excerpt from the book "Scary Rooms Seen by Special Cleaners" - "The House Where Beasts Dwell")

Book Information

"Scary Rooms Seen by Special Cleaners"

Author: Kansai Clean Service

Price: ¥1,650 (tax included)

Release Date: 2026/07/02

Publisher: Gakken

Format: 46

Pages: 248

ISBN: 978-4-05-407108-7

Gakken HP: https://hon.gakken.jp/book/1340710800

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/0bOFlVxg

Author Profile

Kansai Clean Service

Operated by A-LIFE Corporation, represented by Noriyuki Kamezawa.

They provide services such as sorting belongings, cleaning hoarder's homes, and special cleaning, mainly in Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto.

They also contribute to socially significant initiatives, such as operating "KanKuri Kids Kitchen," which repurposes accident sites into children's cafeterias.

Official YouTube Channel "Kansai Clean Service"

Subscribers: Approx. 190,000

https://www.youtube.com/@k_clean0

Official Website: https://www.k-clean.jp/

・Noriyuki Kamezawa

Representative Director of A-LIFE Corporation, which operates Kansai Clean Service, providing special cleaning for accident sites, sorting belongings, and reselling accident properties.

He serves as the chief priest of Suiryokuzan Zensho-in and continues to work on "preventing isolation," the stage before lonely deaths occur.

He shares the current situation of isolation and sorting of belongings through lectures and media.

X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/KAMESAWA_Kclean Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kamesawa_n/

・Yoshitaka Kondo

Has been involved in sorting belongings for over 18 years. He is a childhood friend of Representative Director Kamezawa.

While working as an active belongings sorter and special cleaner, he also works as a ghost storyteller, appearing at occult events and on ghost-themed YouTube channels.

X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/KONDO_Kclean Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kondo_k.clean/

A-LIFE Corporation

Service Name: Kansai Clean Service (https://www.k-clean.jp/) Location: 3-16-39 Fukae Kita, Higashinari Ward, Osaka Distributing Company Name: A-LIFE Corporation (https://alife-grp.com/) Head Office Location: A-LIFE Building, 1-4-6 Akata, Saidaiji, Nara City Representative Director: Noriyuki Kamezawa Business Activities: Sorting belongings, special cleaning of crime/accident scenes, industrial waste collection and transportation, general recycling-related businesses, etc. Establishment Date: December 2006 Capital: 30 million yen