The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practice: Japan
Boret, S. 2017
‘Agency and the personalization of the grave in Japan’, in S. Boret, S. Long and S. Kan (eds) Death in the Early 21st Century: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites, Palgrave Macmillan, 217-254.
Rowe, M. 2011
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Chicago: Chicago University Press.