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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Making one’s death, dying, and disposal in contemporary Japan
PART I. Meaning of life and dying in contemporary Japan
1. Death and ‘the pursuit of a life worth living’ in Japan
2. Dying in Japan: Into the hospital and out again?
3. Sarariiman suicides in Heisei Japan
PART II. Professionalization of funerals
4. Working of funeral homes: Between dignity of death and commercialism in work for the dead1
5. Funeral-while-alive as experiential transcendence
6. Contemporary transformation of Japanese death ceremonies1
PART III. New burial practices in Japan
7. Beyond ancestor worship: Continued relationship with significant others
8. Life course and new death rites in Japan: The loss of comrades in the Second World War and the choice of ash scattering
9. An anthropological study of a Japanese tree burial: Environment, kinship, and death
10. Disaster and death in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 crash 1
11. Epilogue: Price of mortality – reinvention of Japanese death rituals
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