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Cover 1 Death and Dying In contemporary Japan 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of Illustrations 12 Notes on Contributors 14 Acknowledgements 17 Preface 18 Introduction: Making One’s Death, Dying, and Disposal in Contemporary Japan 20 Part I: Meaning of Life and Dying in Contemporary Japan 50 1. Death and ‘the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living’ in Japan 52 2. Dying in Japan: Into the Hospital and Out Again? 68 3. Sarariiman Suicides in Heisei Japan 83 Part II: Professionalization of Funerals 100 4. Working of Funeral Homes: Between Dignity of Death and Commercialism in Work for the Dead 102 5. Funeral-while-alive as Experiential Transcendence 121 6. Contemporary Transformation of Japanese Death Ceremonies 142 Part III: New Burial Practices in Japan 158 7. Beyond Ancestor Worship: Continued Relationship with Significant Others 160 8. Life Course and New Death Rites in Japan: The Loss of Comrades in the Second World War and the Choice of Ash Scatttering 176 9. An Anthropological Study of a Japanese Tree Burial: Environment, Kinship, and Death 196 10. Disaster and Death in Japan: Responses to the Flight Jl123 Crash 221 Epilogue: Price of Mortality – Reinv

Author

Hikaru Suzuki

Published

2012

Language

EN