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In an innovative twist on funeral traditions, a 120-year-old funeral home in Japan has introduced a “coffin cafe” where visitors can lie in a casket and reflect on life and death. This new ...

“No State Funeral” or “Give up the State Funeral!” in front of the main gate of Japan’s parliament. The state funeral for Abe is scheduled for Sept. 27 at Nippon Budokan Hall in the capita ...

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

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 ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was busy on Sept. 26 greeting senior officials from overseas countries who flew to Japan to attend a funeral that a majority of surveyed Japanese say should be canceled.

People and officials gathered in Tokyo to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated last Friday. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called Abe a visionary ...

TOKYO, September 27. /TASS/. A state funeral for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is taking place at the Nippon Budokan arena in downtown Tokyo, a TASS correspondent reports. A state ...

TOKYO, July 9. /TASS/. The funeral of Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated on Friday, will take place on July 12, Kyodo news agency reported. The agency also added that ...