The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Cremation: Japan
Jieun, K. 2016
‘Necrosociality: isolated death and unclaimed cremains in Japan’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22:44, 843– 63.
Kawano, S. 2004
‘Scattering ashes of the family dead: memorial activity among the bereaved in contemporary Japan, Ethnology, 43:1, 233–48.
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Rowe, M. 2003
‘Grave changes: scattering ashes in contemporary Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Nagoya), 30: 1-2, 85-118.
Uriu, D., Odom, W., & Gould, H. 2018
‘Understanding automatic conveyor-belt columbaria: emerging sites of interactive memorialisation in Japan’, Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
