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Japan’s expensive funerals and declining birth rates are transforming ancestral traditions

By Mimi Hanaoka, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Richmond

Whenever I drive amid the mazelike bustle of Tokyo’s Shuto Expressway, where approximately 1 million vehicles transit daily, I see billboard advertisements for all manner of businesses: dentists, hotels, car and tire companies, and affordable funerals. Lots and lots of funerals.

For generations, Japan’s funeral system rested on family…

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