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Depends on the director and the budget, and also quite a bit of luck.

What GP said. Besides Japan, Italy is the other country that I can recall off my head that is aging this badly.

She has the freedom, but doesn't know what to do with it.

In typical fashion, she knows what she wants, but doesn't know how to get to it.

Sea wrote: Mmmm, First world problems

It has become an existential problem for Japan, thank-you-very-much. That's how bad the baby shortage is. Add to that Japanese mistrust towards outsiders (resulting in low numbers coming into the country), and you have a recipe for disaster.

Not to mention the fact that children is now a dying breed in Japan. The situation is probably not so bad in the mid 1990s-to-early-2000s (Hanako's childhood), but it is definitely bad now. Some primary schools only have a handful of students in the sleepy towns/villages.

The subconscious mind can do wonders. A few years later, you might stumble back to this thread and go,"What the hell was I thinking?"

It's a vicious cycle. Her looks led to bullying, and her folks aren't there to help her.

Also, as far as I can see, the reason for the fire is never stated.

GP, I think that will depend on where you're staying. If you're living in the megalopolis, cremation is definitely the way. If somehow Hanako had been living in a sleepy town/village, burial is possible. But, as you said, she probably doesn't have the dough to maintain the plot.

University life. Good times.

There's a difference between "burnt beyond recognition" and "reduced to ashes". Have you any idea how hot it is to burn human bones? A household fire is unlikely to have that kind of heat. If you'll talking about 9/11, with that amount of jet fuel and other stuff, it's another story. I agree with GP...

That post reminds me of what Shizune might be thinking about herself.

Life is how seriously (or lightly) you treat things around you. Do the appropriate treatment, and things become easier.

One nuke is not overdone. One nuke for every major population center in all 6 continents: Now, we're talking.

Eloquent In My Native Tongue, hopefully.