By YOSHICHIKA YAMANAKA/ Staff Writer
October 14, 2020 at 19:26 JST
Takubo, a small gravestone designed to keep ashes of the deceased at home, sold by Urabe Sekizai Kogyo, a company in Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture (Yoshichika Yamanaka)
Many Japanese are abandoning the tradition of visiting and maintaining the graves of their ancestors, an often costly and time-consuming endeavor, and setting up small shrines to them at home instead. [Read More]
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