Women in Japan may have made great strides in deciding how they live their lives, but such freedom has yet to translate into their final resting place.
Take for example a 60-year-old Saitama Prefecture woman whose husband passed away a year ago. She tried to acquire her own grave at a temple in Saitama but was refused on the grounds she had no offspring to inherit it.
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