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

Tokyo (Japan), Sep 17 (ANI): Bidding funeral to a deceased loved one is the most crucial ritual one has to perform in their lifetime. The after-death rituals have evolved over time due to ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Japanese government said on Friday it would hold a state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sept. 27, amid street and social media protests that the state shouldn't fund ...

Japan's state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday is under the spotlight as authorities seek to avoid the kind of security blunders exposed in his assassination in July. Abe ...

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 ...