By HIDEAKI ISHIBASHI/ Senior Staff Writer
December 22, 2024 at 18:46 JST
Masami Saito, right, mayor of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, receives a request from Muslim residents to build an interment cemetery in 2023. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
SENDAI--As a come-on, Miyagi Prefecture hopes to be able to promise Indonesian and other Muslim workers they will be buried appropriately if they die in Japan. [Read More]
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