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GRAVES

The family grave of Toshihide Matsumoto is dismantled in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. An increasing number of Japanese people are opting to permanently close their family graves as traditional family structures continue to change.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2023
Graying Japan faces a grave problem
Services designed to help people move or scatter their ancestors' ashes and close up family graves are experiencing increased demand.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Nov 9, 2018
A sad legacy of postwar upheaval, neglected graves hinder safety works in Okinawa
The area around the banks of the Hija River in the town of Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture, is dotted with graves that are left unattended with no one to inherit them, posing a growing problem for urban development and safety works.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2018
Japanese favoring Western-style gravestones for their cost and sturdiness: industry survey
The number of people who purchased traditional Japanese-style gravestones has halved over the past 14 years but Western-style memorials remain popular options, and those with designs unique to the deceased have experienced a sharp rise, according to an annual industry survey.
Japan Times
JAPAN / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 10, 2018
Pricey family graves a fading tradition in aging Japan
Last month, a man was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police for leaving human remains at a garbage collection station near his residence in Adachi Ward. The remains had been cremated and were mixed in with shards of funerary urns, and according to a report on NHK News, the man admitted to dumping the urns but claimed he knew nothing of the ashes and bone fragments.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2017
Iraq not equipped to try Islamic State over atrocities in Mosul, against Yazidis: U.N.
Iraq is not capable of trying atrocities committed by Islamic State during the battle for Mosul so it must find other routes to justice such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), a U.N. human rights report said on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 22, 2016
In Aichi, ashes of the dead shift to conveyer belt system as Japan grays
The first columbarium in the Chubu region to use an automated cinerary box conveyor system opened last month in Nagoya as the popularity of tombs that do not require much maintenance grows.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2016
Families look to temples to maintain small graves
Yoshiki Saito, 76, moved his parents' remains in February from a graveyard in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, to Jokyuji Temple in the western Tokyo suburb of Fuchu, where perpetual services are offered to maintain and care for graves.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 16, 2015
Japanese visit graves of kin who died at end of WWII in North Korea
A Japanese group on Sunday visited the graves of relatives who died in what is now North Korea during the chaos at the end of World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 4, 2015
In shrinking villages, abandoned graves are a sign of generational flight
In the nation's declining provinces, it is not only the living who are neglected.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2014
In Japan, grave times for the tombstone trade
An Jianxing can see he is in a dying business.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2014
Families head to North Korea to visit graves
A group of nine Japanese citizens departed Tokyo on Wednesday for North Korea, to visit graves of relatives who died there around the end of World War II.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
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