Talk:Japanese funeral

message: How long is it from time of death to the wake to the funeral?  Thanks, Chris 01:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It can be anything between 1 and 3 days, sometimes. My bf's grandma passed away on Dec. 26. The wake took place on the 28th and the funeral on the 29th. I have participated in many funeral services in Japan (mostly for co-worker's relatives) but this was the first time I joined the bone picking ceremony and also sat with the family during all the services. Definitely was not in the mood for any new year party last year.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.196.15.134 (talk) 01:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Timing of events

message: The section on the Japanese funeral industry appears to have a negative point of view, and therefore is not in line with the WP:NPOV policy.  If it can be either supported with references (which the whole article needs), or described as someone else's argument, that would help.  
--zandperl 23:51, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Additionally, most of this section is not unique to Japan.  I propose that most of it be removed from this article, leaving the country-specific portions (such as average prices).  If there's an appropriate article to merge the other information into, and it could be done so in a more NPOV manner (and one that does not violate any previous consensus reached for that article), then that can be done to preserve any parts that are worth keeping but are not specific to Japan. --Icarus 19:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The article also compares alleged corruption in the Japanese funeral industry with alleged practices in the United States in the 1970's. It then references the controversial book written by Jessica Mitford. That book has never been accepted as a seriously researched scholarly work. No proof is offered that these alleged practices have ever been a part of American funeral practices. --FD1951 20:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Japanese funeral industry - POV

message: Does anyone know the literal meaning of this, or sources stating that it's still common in Japan? Anything at all in reference to this? FerventDove 07:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the kanji, and there is a bit about it at ja:心中 if you can read Japanese. Neier 12:55, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  jōshi 

message: Odd that neither "Buddhism/Buddhist" nor "temple" appear in the opening paragraph. Buddhism is largely associated with death and funerals in Japan, and many people do not worship at or otherwise associate with temples except for at funerals, in part because of this self-reinforcing association of the temple with a place only for funerals. This association also played an important role in the Meiji period "State Shinto" movement, as Shinto was being pushed and certain groups of people (namely Shinto priests) were forbidden to have Buddhist funerals. LordAmeth 00:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Religion?

message: I added a link to the Cremation Society with 2005 statistics (having edited the article anonymously by mistake). 
This site was quoted from BBC News "here", so I feel it would be a useful source for all other cremation figures needed elsewhere on Wikipedia. Turbanator 16:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  99.82% cremation rate. 

message: The article says: "Since 1995, 1,210 people have committed suicide on the lines of Japanese railways, 156 of them on the Chūō line."
Interesting, though without a citation or even an indication of the end-point of this time period is (1995-2000?  1995-2008?) it's not a very precise figure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.71.164.107 (talk) 03:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed this section, since it is uncited and meaningless without a precise time period. --DAJF (talk) 02:08, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Since 1995" 

message: The article as it stands is not very informative about the current practices, there is a desire often seen in articles about Japan to pick out a few extreme practices and emphasize those, but not to discuss the most common practices. For example the article doesn't mention 告別式 (kokubetsushiki) at all, and before I edited it just now there was a big section without any citations about price gouging right at the top of the article, which without a reference could just be something someone made up. The cited reference to Japan Times about expenses doesn't support the claim either. This article really needs a lot of work I think and it is rather silly. JoshuSasori (talk) 04:21, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is not really informative about current normal practices 

message: The article states that 91% of funerals are Buddhist ceremonies. What about the rest? There is no description of Shinto funerals which are still conducted, for example for the imperial family (Death and funeral of Emperor Shōwa). --Countakeshi (talk) 20:39, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Shinto funerals

message: I would suggest to change the title of the article to "Funerals in Japan" or "Funeral culture in Japan" as there is no such thing as one "Japanese funeral". As it is discussed above there are several practices within modern Japan. Wurstverse (talk) 02:12, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title is misleading 

message: Yrs 102.16.42.32 (talk) 06:43, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Funeral