Japan sees slump in number of places of ‘privacy and comfort’, some of which offer five-star facilities while others are more ...

FUTTSU, Chiba -- A funeral company in this east Japan city in business for over 120 years this September began offering an ...

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Nevertheless, respect for the deceased and the importance of remembrance remain central to Japanese funeral culture. Held the night before the funeral, the wake is a gathering of close family and ...

A rare state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister who was assassinated in July, has split Japan. The hawkish Abe was one of the nation’s most divisive postwar leaders, but it is the ...

The state funeral, held in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, was only the second such event for a former prime minister in postwar Japan. But for the most part, it was business as usual in the greater Tokyo ...

The funeral industry and municipal governments ... That adds stress to what is already a traumatic time. According to Japan's health ministry, the number of deaths during the 2022 calendar year ...

It was far from the traditional Japanese funeral manner, and it opened many people's eyes to the brutal reality of death from a contagious virus. This era of self-isolation and social distancing ...

Records indicate that the deaths occurred inside homes in Aomori in 2018 and in Okinawa in 2020, as well as funeral facilities in Miyagi and Miyazaki in 2021. The Mainichi Shimbun, citing Japan ...