For a look at funeral customs in Japan, sushiwalker, a 25-year-old Japanese man who lives in America most of the time happened to be in Japan when his grandfather died. He describes the death, the wake and funeral and the cremation in Chronicles of a Japanese Funeral.
(the type is very small, I had to bump it up twice for ease in reading.) via BoingBoing
Posted by Jill Fallon at October 15, 2007 5:19 PM | Permalink