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This photo was taken and sent in by August, it was taken in Japan. This is perhaps the only place on earth where a cars graveyard is right next to a persons graveyard. I can only imagine how much rust and other gunk is seeping into the ground (and quite possibly into the people graveyard).
Needless to say, I understand Japan doesn't have as much available space as we do (and quite possibly we take for granted), but come-on..
Looks like the graveyard is elevated, so I don't expect it might be a problem. They might have even landfilled it intentionally. And we don't know if there is an anti-seep wall embedded between the properties.
They do cremate all bodies, in fact what you see are mable headstones, some have urns with the cremated remains or no remains, it is a place people go to light insence and place flowers on holidays to rember the dead. (I know this cause I am here in tokyo and asked my japanese husband about it once i realized that we lived two blocks from a cemetary at the time).
I agree with you Vincent Pinto, and considering Rikka's comment everything is OK with that photo. After all there is so little free space left in Japan, right?
What's more - can you see the woods nearby? It looks peaceful except for the cars, of course. We don't have woods near the graveyards in my country :(
I lived in Japan for a few years, so let me just say a) everyone who's buried in the graveyard has been cremated and b) the western sensibility notices these things, garbage tips next to beautiful falls, the Japanese for some reason seem to be bale to focus more narrowly, they wouldn't mind this juxtaposition at all in my observation, I've seen a number of things like this in my time, a beautiful temple with a pachinko parlour right next to it, a waterfall with a cement factory off to the side, that sort of thing.
