Comments on: On Japanese Funerals

By: On Nature in Japan, or: On Getting Killed By a Wild Goat in America | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:02:25 +0000

[...] up through the sidewalks here; it’s erupting and moving and shaking, and people are usually dying when it [...]

By: On Obon: Japan’s Homecoming Game, with Ghosts. | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:52:01 +0000

[...] you do that, your mom and dad, and their parents, too, for up to seven generations, (everyone else is too far away by now) and all your close relatives, will escape from the suffering path and be moved along on their [...]

By: On the Death of Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です

On the Death of Japan | This Japanese Life. | 生命を外面九天です — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:55:12 +0000

[...] the plastic servants lift him to the plastic priest for cremation, where android hands pass his bones to each other with long metallic [...]

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:03:43 +0000

Great post indeed on a topic that is not easy to tackle and about an element of Japanese culture none of us want to experience I assume.

By: Sivan

Sivan — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:25:51 +0000

So interesting and well written! Just found your blog and am looking forward to exploring the rest of your posts :)

By: Blue Shoe

Blue Shoe — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:45:54 +0000

Heavy topic, but well-covered. I read about the reverse kimono lapel folding recently, incidentally. There are a lot of interesting rituals…reminds me a little of the Roman and Egyptian customs, believing that the dead would pass into the next world with some possessions left to them. by the living.