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	Burial insurance Funeral, more information about Funeral
		The most simple and natural kind of funeral monuments, and therefore the most ancient and universal, consist in a mound of earth, or a heap of stones, raised over the ashes of the departed: of such monuments mention is made in the Book of Joshua, and in Homer and Virgil.
		The law generally holds that the funeral rituals are for the benefit of the survivors, rather than to express the personal whims and tastes of the decedent.
		Another way of avoiding some of the rituals and costs of a traditional funeral is for the decedent to donate some or all of her or his body to a medical school or similar institution for the purpose of instruction in anatomy, or for similar purposes.
	www.burial-insurance.us /Funeral.html (3647 words)

	Japanese Funeral Customs
		Japanese funeral customs vary widely from region to region, so a generic description is not possible.
		The person offering incense goes to the urn placed in front of the altar, stands at attention (or sits Japanese style on the cushion in front of it if the urn is on a low table on the floor), puts his or her hands together with the rosary around them, then bows.
		When the urn (some Japanese will put a portion of the bones in a temple and some in the family grave, in which case 2 urns are filled) has been filled, it is covered and wrapped in a white cloth.
	tanutech.com /japan/jfunerals.html (1922 words)

	Student Counseling Services - Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Japanese government allows religious organizations to freely practice their beliefs as long they are registered with the government.
		The notion of counseling in the Japanese culture used to be a negative and unprofessional one, which was to say that before Westernization occurred in late 19th century, the public did not regard counseling as a profession.
		All Japanese staying in the US more than 3 months are required to submit a notice of stay, which is the source of all the contact information, to an Embassy; however, there may be some students who have not done it.
	scs.iastate.edu /diversity/culture/japan.html (2088 words)

	Book1New
		The original purpose of the funeral was to enable close relatives and friends of the deceased to gather and to offer a prayer for the deceased to attain Buddhahood.
		Though the Japanese may seem to be cool and reserved, they will soon respond to guests with a warmth and gentleness that cannot be hidden by politeness or cultural traditions.
		Japanese people often wear a yukata to a summer festival when yukata contests are held.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /hartnicolaas/Booklet1.html (3557 words)

	Burial insurance Japanese funeral, more information about Japanese funeral
		While Japan has a mixture of Shinto, Christian, and Buddhist beliefs, funerals are almost always Buddhist ceremonies, and 90% of the funerals are Buddhist style.
		A typical Japanese grave is usually a family grave (Japanese: haka) consisting of a stone monument, with a place for flowers, incense, and water in front of the monument and a chamber or crypt underneath for the ashes.
		A funeral followed for the samurai in the traditional white kimono.
	www.burial-insurance.us /Japanese_funeral.html (2508 words)

	Modern and Ancient Funeral Rites on the Internet
		Funeral rites of the Caribbean tend to be elaborate, steeped in religious ceremony (usually Protestant), and grounded by cultural heritage.
		The general guidelines for funerals are contained in the rubrics of the United Methodist Church as found in the Book of Worship (1992), pages 139-141...
		Funeral and grieving rituals from the Native American Culture are diversed and profound.
	www.thefuneraldirectory.com /ancientrites.html (2438 words)

	AAR/SBL Joint Ventures :: MEETING
		Early medieval Japanese historical and literary sources reflect a deep concern, especially in aristocratic and monastic circles, with dying a ritually correct death.
		Zen priests to simultaneously maintain the ideas of immediate salvation at the funeral and gradual care of the dead through memorial services was a key function in the sect's growth.
		The funeral procedures were set by the founders of various Buddhist schools in Japan at different times in the history of Japanese Buddhism from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
	www.ssjr.unc.edu /aara46.htm (756 words)

	The Secularization of Japanese Buddhism
		As Winston Davis notes in his essay "The Secularization of Japanese Religion", there tends to be two opposed methods for approaching the idea of secularization: one that it is an inevitable result of the advance of modernism; the other that it is an impossibility based on man's essential religious nature.
		Although the conditions during World War II and the policies of the Japanese wartime governments were certainly exceptional, the status of the Buddhist priest during World War II shows the growing trend in modern Japanese society of not distinguishing priests from the rest of the society.
		As ancestor worship is a key aspect of Japanese religiosity, the Japanese priest has evolved into a very essential figure for his comforting and taking care of the souls of the dead.
	www.bpf.org /tsangha/tomatsusec.html (3507 words)

	Ososhiki - Halvsie.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Funerals are for the family, not the deceased.
		The cost of the funeral itself tends to be very high, and everyone brings the customary "okouden" (funeral offering) - there's protocol on the amount you bring, usually correlating to how well you knew the deceased - to basically help pay for the funeral.
		Japanese funerals, of which I've been to two in the last three years, are quite all right by me, especially as someone who doesn't believe in any sort of life after death.
	www.halvsie.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=3164 (2442 words)

	japanese culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some of the contributions were Kabuki {a japanese form of theater}, Hiragana and Katakana, the Japanese Funeral, the Samurai's, the kimomo, and many other cultural achievements.
		The reason why it played an important role in their culture is because the funeral is a very religious ceremony.
		The Samurai also played an important role in the japanese culture Samurai's are members of the warrior class.
	www.k12.hi.us /~ktabande/japanese_culture.htm (353 words)

	Grief, Mourning, and Funeral Traditions -- Japanese-Americans in Hawaii
		Once she began dealing with the funeral director Karen felt an enormous pressure of cultural obligations - from her comments to me she felt her decisions were influenced much more strongly by cultural requirements of hospitality and maintaining a good face than by the salesmanship of the funeral director.
		The ceremony at the grave was similar to the one at the funeral chapel.
		Japanese connections with the dead do not generally extend back as many generations as do the Chinese and usually include only relatives who can be remembered by the living.
	www.indiana.edu /~famlygrf/culture/cultprin.html (1822 words)

	Theresa Hanley: Inquiry Report on Zen Buddhist funeral rituals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The funeral of the abbott represented this transference of the essence of Buddha enlightenment.
		The elaborate funeral rituals for the abbott signified the transference of power, while in the case of the ordinary monk, the rituals consisted on moving the body and spirit of the dead monk out of the monastic community.
		Buddhist funeral rites were developed by Chinese Buddhists, and all the monastic codes that Japanese Zen monks follow are based on Chinese monastic codes that tie into Confucian thought.
	www.terebess.hu /english/htheresa.html (2736 words)

	JPRI Occasional Paper No. 9
		On Japanese calendars there is a quirky six- day roulette of "good luck-bad luck" days, which often screws up the schedules of the superstitious (one never gets married on "butsumetsu"-Buddha's death day-for example, because that would be extremely unlucky).
		I have been to about five Japanese funerals so far, and all of them were carried out in the funeral parlor's biggest hall, filled with chairs (around 300 at ours), with one whole wall at the end devoted to pomp.
		There is an elaborate system for collecting money at a Japanese funeral, and contributions are appropriately scaled: a minimum of 2,000 yen (in lower- income Hokkaido) for the distantly connected, 5,000 yen for friends, 10,000 yen for relatives, 30,000 yen for potential heirs, and 50,000 for siblings of the deceased.
	www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op9.html (4146 words)

	Runker Room > Travel > Japan > Sakura Tour of Japan '98
		Most of the Japanese men who emigrated in the earlier part of this century were second, third, fourth, etc. sons.
		Late night Japanese TV was strange as usual, except that on the ubiquitous talk show panels, the spots of the once-fashionable Japanese-speaking gaijin were occupied by now-hip Japanese transvestites.
		Japanese highwayside rest stops are much like those in North America, except for free ocha (green tea) and mugicha (barley tea) and the obligatory omiage (gift) shop featuring regional food specialties.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Island/6653/sakura.htm (2369 words)

	Reviews American Fuji
		This is not a secret from the reader, who learns it early on, but from the rest of the country—that supposedly homogenous, yet judgmental lot who seek to shun what is different, especially a foreign woman with a secret.
		Among the Japanese, women are either bubbly or busybodies; the men, farcical or fascists.
		But we Japanese are children of the emperor, descendants of the gods.
	www.japanreview.net /review_american_fuji.htm (1110 words)

	Japanese Hold 'funeral' For - Asia Finest Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ceremony was nonreligious, though it featured an altar and flowers commonly found at religious funeral rites in Japan.
		Mostly, it demonstrated a quirky side to the Japanese fondness for rituals and marked what poultry producers hope will be a steady recovery in chicken and egg sales.
		Its origins are tied to a Buddhist funeral rite, known as "kuyou" in Japanese, that honors objects and animals.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=6841 (595 words)

	Japanese funeral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Japanese funeral is gay includes a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial service.
		The most popular railway line for suicides in Tokyo is the Chūō Main Line between Tokyo and Shinjuku, owing to the high speed and frequency of the trains.
		According to the Yamaguchi Saijo Funeral Parlor and Crematorium in Sapporo, it takes about an hour and a half to cremate an adult body, 45 minutes for a child, 15 minutes for a stillborn baby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_funeral (3118 words)

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		Subject: BACKGROUND: A Japanese Funeral Notes on A Japanese Funeral For A Company President or Why 4 hours of work takes at least 3 days worth of meetings Wednesday, August 18 At 11 A.M., one manager called all the managers into a meeting.
		The customary dress for a funeral here, for everyone, is a fl suit and tie, or fl dress, to the point where the fl tie (especially) is regarded as a marker of someone attending a funeral.
		I am assigned to the ushers, but after some discussion (given that the the ushers are supposed to use very polite, formal Japanese in dealing with the attendees), I am assigned to stand prominently at the side and bow as people come in or leave.
	www.mit.edu /~mbarker/japan/t016404.txt (1440 words)

	The Religion of the Home
		Some Japanese authorities declare that in the very earliest ages there was no burial, and that corpses were merely conveyed to desolate places, and there abandoned to wild creatures.
		The peculiar character of the early human sacrifices at graves, the character of the funeral-rites, the abandonment of the house in which death had occurred.--all prove that the early ancestor-worship was of a decidedly primitive kind.
		The Japanese term might be more closely rendered by some such expression as "the Superiors," "the Higher Ones"; and it was formerly applied to living rulers as well as to deities and ghosts.
	www.sacred-texts.com /shi/jai/jai05.htm (4561 words)

	Japanese Funerals free essays
		Keeping the Japanese funeral tradition is important to the Japanese, who believe that retaining funerary custom shows respect for the deceased and their ancestors.
		The Japanese believe that their ancestors are always with them, watching, protecting, and guiding them, so respect for their dead through ritual is important.
		Funeral ceremony, and associated customs: In the hour after a person has died, the lips of the deceased are moistened, and the body is washed and dressed in a white kimono, with the right side folded over the left to be the opposite mirror of the way a kimono is normally folded on the living.
	www.needapaper.com /viewpaper/2714.html (307 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Especially in bigger Japanese cities hearses in American style are more common.
		Above interiors of Japanese hearses, mostly Toyota Crown, but also, as a cheap solution, a Toyota Estima (Previa).
		A very strange mixture of a traditional Japanese hearse, an American station wagon ("woodie") of the late 1940s and German Mercedes Benz parts.
	mitglied.lycos.de /albeyer/id37_m.htm (339 words)

	The Funeral (1984 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Funeral was the writing and directing debut of Itami Juzo, and was an enormous success in Japan.
		During the three days of preparation, various tensions within the family are hinted at, such as resentment of a rich but stingy uncle, Inoue's affair with a younger woman, and possibly an affair the dead man himself had with a female croquet player.
		After the service, the long suffering wife delivers a dignified speech to the family regretting that the hospital would not let her be with her husband as he died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Funeral_(1984_movie) (280 words)

	Ososhiki (Death Japanese Style/Funeral Rites) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Yamazaki and Miyamoto play a married couple who are hauled out of their dopey work in a TV studio and plunged into the exceedingly expensive business of co-ordinating the burial rites of the wife's cantankerous father.
		A light-fl satire, this is less a Japanese The Loved One than a rather feebly wishful attempt to revive the Ozu spirit in Japanese cinema.
		The stand-out sequence is probably also the most realistic: the head of the family struggling to master funeral etiquette from an instructional video.
	www.timeout.com /film/66221.html (220 words)

	Asia -- Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If you are invited to the home of a Japanese family, you may be expected to take your shoes off.
		All Japanese speak the same language but with some kind of accent from each area; however, most Japanese can communicate with each other without problems.
		Usually, at night before the funeral day, there is a small ceremony just for the family, relatives, and other close people They stay awake to keep burning incense sticks (osenko) until the morning.
	www.iastate.edu /~stdt_couns_info/cultureandcrisis/japan.html (2084 words)

	Funeral_Service_News_13501
		Rafaiy Alkhalifa, owner of three low-cost Miami funeral homes, watched in distress as his central administrative office and one of his funeral homes were emptied of all records during police raids broadcast live during the scheduled 6:00 p.m.
		Like funerals, memorials are often selected and paid for before the time of death, she said.
		Funeral Directors with Senators and Representatives who are members of the Commerce and Labor Committee need to ask these Committees members to vote OUGHT TO PASS on this bill.
	www.funeralserviceprofessional.com /Funeral_Service_News_13501.html (9385 words)

	Japanese Funerals
		The actual funeral ceremony is then held by Buddhist monks according to Buddhist rituals.
		The Japanese visit their ancestors' graves on many occasions during the year: especially during the obon week, the anniversaries, and the equinoctial weeks.
		concerning chopsticks) one should not do in everyday life because they are linked to funeral rites and death, and are, therefore, suspected to cause bad luck.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2060.html (215 words)

	A Personal Account of a Japanese Funeral
		He was clothed in a white silky kimono with wooden Japanese slippers called gettas, supposedly for his journey back to the spirit world.
		In front of him were rows of flowers people had sent, golden Buddhist figurines, and an intricately detailed bowl where sticks of green incense stood burning in a mound of ashes.
		She dipped a folded cloth into a bowl of warm water and gently dabbed clean his milky body, preparing him for the funeral.
	bosp.kcc.hawaii.edu /Horizons/Horizons2003/a_personal_account.html (850 words)

	Amazon.com: The Funeral: DVD: Tsutomu Yamazaki,Nobuko Miyamoto,Kin Sugai,Hideji Otaki,Hideo Nagai,Takashi Tsumura,Kaoru ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home.
		The quiet love and dignity of the widow and her daughter are the glue that hold the family and friends together.
		The widows humble expression of thanks to the guests after the funeral, thus releaving the son-in-law of the obligation, is nothing but poetic.
	www.amazon.com /Funeral-Juzo-Itami/dp/B00000IREH (2516 words)

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