Japanese rival Koreans for most over-the-top method of excess dog disposal

So many Japanese dog owners are abandoning their pets to the mercy of the municipal pounds that the poor buggers detailed to deal with them are at their wits' end. Shame, no?

However, you would think they'd be able to find a less preposterously emotive final solution for the doggy problem than accumulating the unloved (and probably tediously cute) pooches in holding pens before cleverly transporting them to crematoria in lorries with built-in gas chambers, so that nobody has to have anything too closely resembling a canine concentration camp on their doorstep. I hate to use the reductio ad Hitlerum in this or any other context, but what the fuck? First they came for the spaniels; but I said nothing, for I was not a spaniel...

"Very cruel race." - Pamela, Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)