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Nara man arrested for burying mother in his cemetery plot by himself
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Master Blaster
Nov 22, 2024 - Tweet
- Japan
- (abandoning a corpse • cemeteries • cremation • crime • death • graves • law • Nara)
The unusual and surprising ways people in Nagasaki celebrate Obon, the festival of spirits
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Oona McGee
Aug 16, 2024
One of the few places in Japan where you’ll see families setting off fireworks at the cemetery.
Rest in style – Japanese company bringing back kofun burial mounds for the modern era
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Casey Baseel
Aug 6, 2024
- Japan
- (burial mounds • cemetaries • cool • crazy • culture • graves • history • Kofun • weird)
People who won’t wear masks have to dig graves for COVID-19 deaths in this Indonesian town
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Casey Baseel
Sep 15, 2020
If you’re going to be part of the problem, you’re going to have to be part of the clean-up too.
Japanese taxi company offers service to visit family graves for those who can’t travel themselves
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Katy Kelly
Aug 18, 2020
- Japan
- (Aichi Prefecture • business • family • graves • Obon • religion • spirituality • taxi • taxi company)
Japanese sign uses the power of spirits to strike fear into passers-by and stop them from littering
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Oona McGee
Sep 22, 2017
Forget putting the fear of God into someone; this graveside sign calls on spirits to ensure people mind their manners.
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