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Death and Dying in Contemporary Japan This book, based on extensive original research, explores the variousways in which Japanese people think about death and how they approach the process of dying and death. It shows how new forms offuneral ceremonies havebeen developed by the funeral industry, how traditional grave burial is being replaced in some cases by the scattering of ashes and forest mortuary ritual, and how Japanese thinking on relationships, thevalueof life, and the afterlife are changing. Throughout, it assesses how these changes reflect changing social structures and social values. Hikaru Suzuki is a research associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Con- temporary Japan, Stanford, 2000. 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Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData DeathanddyingincontemporaryJapan/editedbyHikaruSuzuki. p.cm.–(Japananthropologyworkshopseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Funeralritesandceremonies–Japan.2.Death–Socialaspects–Japan.3. Undertakersandundertaking–Japan.4.Japan–Sociallifeandcustoms.I. Suzuki,Hikaru. GT3284.A2D432012 393.0952–dc23 2012018116 ISBN:978-0-415-63190-7(hbk) ISBN:978-0-203-09542-3(ebk) TypesetinTimesNewRoman byTaylor&FrancisBooks To my father, mother, and sister who have departed Contents List of illustrations xi Notes on contributors xiii Acknowledgements xvi Preface xvii Introduction: making one’s death, dying, and disposal in contemporary Japan 1 HIKARUSUZUKI PARTI Meaning of life and dying in contemporary Japan 31 1 Death and ‘the pursuit of a life worth living’ in Japan 33 GORDONMATHEWS 2 Dying in Japan: into the hospital and out again? 49 SUSANORPETTLONG 3 Sarariiman suicides in Heisei Japan 64 SAWAKUROTANI PARTII Professionalization of funerals 81 4 Working of funeral homes: between dignity of death and commercialism in work for the dead 83 DAISUKETANAKA 5 Funeral-while-alive as experiential transcendence 102 HIKARUSUZUKI
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