Translation guide
A place where dead bodies are kept, especially for identification or before burial. In Japanese, the term depends on the context: hospital, police, or funeral home.
The room in a hospital where dead bodies are kept temporarily.
Standard term for a hospital morgue. Literally 'spirit peace room'.
The body was taken to the morgue.
More direct term meaning 'corpse storage place'. Used in official or police contexts.
Identification was carried out at the morgue.
A facility where autopsies are performed and unidentified bodies are kept, often by the police.
A room where the deceased is laid out for viewing before a funeral.
A newspaper's archive of past articles and reference materials.
General term for a reference room or archive in an organization.
I found the article in the newspaper's morgue.
Literally 'newspaper clipping storage'. Specific but less common.
The loanword モルグ exists but is rarely used and may not be understood. Stick to the context-appropriate Japanese terms.
Japanese distinguishes clearly between hospital, police, and funeral settings. Choose the term based on who is handling the body.
The unidentified body was placed in the forensic medicine department.
The body was laid out at the wake venue.
I researched the old case in the newspaper morgue.