In the process of acculturation into the new urban culture, they made a great deal of modifications in almost every sphere of life including the rites of passage. Today the ceremonies and rites of passage are performed but in a fashion that suits their urban lifestyles. Gradually, individual family members were unable to conduct important ceremonies because they did not have the know-how or the experience. Instead many new businesses in the tertiary sector were born to serve the urban families. Today fewer and fewer families perform wedding receptions for their sons and daughters at home.
Fewer families hold funerals for their members at home.
Today individuals in urban and suburban communities are often deprived of opportunities to learn and perform some very basic traditional ceremonies at home. As a result they lack basic knowledge in the preparation and in the performance of family rituals. We can see similar developments in the practices of celebrating seasonal and annual ceremonies at home. Fewer and fewer Japanese women are able to put on their traditional kimono by themselves. The dressing codes of kimono according to the formality and season of the years are things that many Japanese must look up in books or elicit the help of the elderly members of the family.