April 26th in 2023, a large farm housing 150,000 chicken hens died in a barn fire in Omitama, Ibaraki prefecture. No single chicken survived. They were stuck in their cages, waiting to die in fire. Just imagine their fear and agony.  When you take a look at the media coverage, they report as though it was a relief since no humans died. No one reported what actually happened although the police and the fire stations were investigating this case so we inquired about this about 8 years ago. One fire station answered that they didn’t have any record since fires in farm houses were usually regarded as trivial. The newspaper…