Masayo Isurugi prays in front of an altar with the urn containing her late husband’s ashes after an automated system delivered the zushi box to the mourning booth at the Kuramae-ryoen facility, a multi-storey charnel house and Buddhist temple, in Tokyo. — AFP
TOKYO: Masayo Isurugi settles into a booth on the sixth floor of a sleek Tokyo building, scans an ID card and waits for an automated system to deliver her late husband’s ashes.
More and more people in Japan are breaking with traditions on burial and mourning, swapping hometown graveyards for modern takes on cemeteries.
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