With an expanding number of Muslims living in Japan, there has been an expanding call so that the funeral plots comply with their ideals in a country where cremation is the norm.
While some local rides plan to identify new funeral cemeteries to welcome foreign workers, the concept went along well with Japanese network leaders who have raised objections over what they say are fitness concerns.
Muslims who plan to live permanently in the country say that the limited number of burial plots worries them about their future.
In December, the governor of Miyagi, Yoshihiro Murai, said plans to build a new cemetery in the prefecture after a supplication of a Muslim resident who told him that living in Japan “is very difficult” for his circle of relatives due to The lack of tombs.
The Prefecture, located in the Tohoku region in the Northeast of Japan, exchanged memoranda with the Indonesian government in 2023 in relation to obtaining human resources in an offer to local industries.
Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population. The Quran, the Sacred Electronic Book of Islam, says that Muslims will have to be buried and resurrected after death. Cremation is strictly prohibited among faith practitioners.
“I think the government is more involved about the lack of attention to multiculturalism, even though it claims to be a multicultural society,” Murai said, noting that there are no burial cemeteries in the Tohoku region. , we have to do anything about it,” he added.
Elsewhere, a structure assignment for a giant funeral cemetery promoted through the BEPPU Muslim Association, a devout society in Hiji, the prefecture of OITA, in southwest Japan, discouraged indefinitely due to the mayor’s opposition of the city.
The plan seemed to go well in the first place. In 2023, local citizens approved the plan to sell land owned by the municipal property on the condition that it conformed to ordinances for structure sites. The city was not opposed.
The apparent smooth progress of the plan was in contrast with the opposition aroused in 2018 by a plan to buy a different plot. That had triggered rumors about alleged harm, including the impact on groundwater quality.
For the existing plan, the situations included an agreement with the Citizens Agreement where the planned is, not promising any additional burial for 20 years in the plots where the burials took position and that the groundwater will be tested once a year.
However, the scenario took a dark turn when Tetsuya Abe, who opposed the plan related to public aptitude, won his first offer by the mayor in August 2024.
The association’s representative, Tahir Khan, was informed that Abe had no intention of selling the plot to be used as a cemetery after residents expressed concerns about the possible contamination of drinking water among other issues.
According to an estimate by Hirofumi Tanada, the professor emeritus at Waseda University, who is an expert on Muslim affairs in Japan, the country’s Muslim population has been around 350,000 since the start of 2024. June 2024.
Although the numbers are expected to rise even further, according to the town of Hiji and others, there are only about 10 major locations with burial sites in Japan with religious affiliations, including Christian sites.
The law on burial posts does not prohibit burial on the ground, and local governments can identify them if they establish them. But according to a national survey conducted in 2023, more than Ninenine, nine percent of cemeteries only carry out cremations.
Amid the paintings’ inner scarcity, the government praises their efforts to settle for more human resources and paintings about the truth of an inclusive society. Abe, the mayor of Hiji, says that consulting the source of the burial plots is not left to the municipalities, suggesting that the central government steps in to identify directives.
In 2021, the Beppu Muslim Association petitioned the central government to establish a public cemetery where people can choose their burial method according to their faith, but “there has been no change,” according to the association.
Khan, a university professor at Oita who arrived in Japan in 2001 and has become a Japanese citizen, has a child born in Japan. “We leave the tombs for the next generation. ” Said.
The adequate public parks government, sports fields and other green public spaces for this. The rest of us do not want it anyway.
Or the network can be informed: “When it is in Romearray . . . “
“I think the government is more involved with the lack of attention to multiculturalism, even if it claims to be a multicultural society,” “,,” “,,” “,,” “”,,” “”. “
Japan really needs reasonable hard work, but it will not settle for multiculturalism.
who opposed considerations on public health
There is no excuse at all, especially in the rural area. There are many deserted spaces and houses, in fact, nobody cares about this area, that fear for public aptitude is just an excuse. Other countries buried every day, what kind of disease do they have? Another ridiculous Japanese excuse.
@asdfghjkl
It will seem difficult, but what would you say to become local faith or someone else according to the Japanese way of life if you need to live here?
It’s hard, why would you give up your identity like this? So what forces them to eat born beans and forced them to eat ramen through grinding aloud?
@JeffLee
Or the community could be told: “When in Rome…”
Why have other people stay beyond where other people claim other people? While they are in Rome, other people do not eat NATO beans.
Here, another, in many Asian countries, many bathrooms do not supply cloth water alone, guess how many Western foreigners can comply with this.
Japan be very careful!
@vanstar
Japan really addicted with cheap labor, so Japan need to fulfill those labor needs.
Do not cater to it.
This is going to sound harsh but how about convert to the local religion or one more in line with Japanese way of life if one wants to live here.
Not at all at all. Japan does not begin to comply with an express organization of people. If they need burial plots, they buy the land, go through the documents and sort it out themselves.
. . . after a plea through a Muslim resident who told him to live in Japan “is very difficult” for his circle of relatives due to the lack of tombs.
Don’t be shameless, though, the living don’t want graves.
I’m not familiar with Japanese law, but are these communities not able to purchase land themselves and use it as a cemetery? I believe private cemeteries do exist in Japan so there should be nothing stopping them from buying land and appropriating it to burials
If not, what is the challenge with public cemeteries lately in Japan? The cremation carried out in Japan is secular and does not mean any devout ceremony.
If Muslims find it difficult to live in Japan due to the lack of graves, they deserve to return to their country of origin, where their remains will be buried according to their religion. Multiculturalism means respecting the way of life of each culture. This does not mean enforcing yours on others.
They will have to comply with the social norms here, or avoid coming.
Um, no.
In a country already with limited space, they’d be expecting too much.
“It will seem difficult, however, what would you say to convert to the local faith or some other according to the Japanese way of life if you need to live here?”
This doesn’t sound harsh at all, in fact people do convert but for other reasons like love, marriage, change of faith, and so on, but to suggest that people should consider converting due to IGNORANCE and lack of Understanding is Ignorant in itself.
People should be able to choose how they wish to be buried and this is what this article is all about.
@Gorramcowboy
In a country already with limited space, they’d be expecting too much.
Not only do you think that Japan only Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe, right?
There are giant Japan of the empty earth, now many lands can have even more in Japan.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/Japan-real-estate-recovery-defies-demographic-decline
There are vast empty land all over Japan, by now many lands are available even more in Japan.
Perfect, resolved then. The Muslim network can buy this land and assign it to burial sites.
@Meiyouwenti
then they should consider going back to their home countries where their remains will be buried in accordance with their religion. Multiculturalism means respecting each culture’s way of life. It doesn’t mean imposing yours on others.
They don’t impose their cultures on Japanese, does this article again call on the Japanese to avoid cremation?They are only asking for land that will already have to be a burial site, which requires local government approval.
@Jboneinthezone
I’m not familiar with Japanese law, but are these communities not able to purchase land themselves and use it as a cemetery? I believe private cemeteries do exist in Japan so there should be nothing stopping them from buying land and appropriating it to burials
If not, what is wrong with the public cemeteries currently available in Japan? Cremation as performed in Japan is secular and doesn’t involve any religious ceremonies.
They have already acquired land, they just want authorization from the local government, which can vary from position to position. Even better, if the local government claims that they are adapted to foreigners, they can produce this statement by offering all the wishes of foreigners, adding burial. H
They have already acquired land, they want the permission of the local government, which can vary from one position to another.
No, they didn’t have permission. According to the article, the authorization was canceled because there was a prospective risk of contaminating groundwater. Seems like a justified explanation for canceling the permit, right?
I think the Muslim community will end up funding private land for burial and comply with regulations.
The underground water pollution factor turns out to be staged to save the idea.
Most Western countries have very giant burial areas, and this has never emerged, which I know.
That water pollution in Japan comes from industrial and agricultural practices.
@Factchecker
Not at all. Japan does not begin to fulfill an express organization of people. If they need funeral plots, they buy the ground, they pass through the documents and order it themselves.
What happens with burial permission is to have the local government, many of the local government in Japan need foreign reasonable labor, they need the money of employee pensions, the local employee tax. However, when it comes to attending to those who employees need, then it is sucking the time of the teeth.
@Gurumick
Think that the Muslim network will finance personal lands for burial and comply with the regulations.
The issue of ground water contamination seems staged to prevent the idea.
Most Western countries have very giant burial areas, and this has never come up, as far as I know.
I this water pollution in Japan comes from industrial and agricultural practices.
There are many hills or mountains in rural Japan, where other people live for miles. This can take almost an hour in the nearest city or village, this position can be a burial position, if only the local government allowed it.
@Jboneinthezone
No, they didn’t have permission. According to the article, the authorization was canceled because there was a prospective risk of contaminating groundwater. Seems like a justified explanation for canceling the permit, right?
Exactly what I said, permission. Buying land and houses in Japan is easy, anyone can do it abroad, don’t you forget that there is a Chinese woman who bought the total island last year?
The groundwater excuse is through the coincidence that the election of the new mayor occurred, at least what is written in this article.
Excuse in groundwater, it is through what happened when the new mayor is chosen, at least what has been written in this article.
Can you please post a source or something that supports your claim it’s just an excuse? I’ll wait.
@Jboneinthezone
The representative of the association, Tahir Khan, was informed that Abe had no goal of promoting conspiracy to be used as a cemetery after citizens expressed their considerations regarding the imaginable pollution of drinking water, among other questions.
The fact is that it is based on science or is based on rumors, do not forget that many countries have an interruption site without any problem.
And I am sure that the previous “change” can why the multitude of interruption sites in Sydney, some of more than a century, do not seem to have affected the water.
Groundwater, which made an excuse
It’s not an excuse. Muslims aren’t buried in coffins. I’d wager to say that a large number of corpses in the earth rotting away is a pretty justified reason to be concerned about contamination.
They had to buy land/properties for their mosques/prayer rooms
What’s stopping them from doing the same for their cemeteries?
I know a few Muslims in Japan and from what i’ve heard they usually have more than enough funds for these things
Many chemical hydrologists in the forum this morning, “I to say”
Worried about their future when they’re dead and their bodies decomposing. Interesting. Maybe change and adopt the local customs and incinerate the body. When you move to a different country you need to accept change. Otherwise, you’ll be a very unhappy person.
@Gurumick
And I am sure “change ” above can explain why the multitude of burial sites in Sydney , some over a century old, do not appear to have affected the water.
Exactly! Whether the fear of citizens is genuine or can be scientifically proven.
The thing, is that really science based or rumor based
It is in science:
”Conclusion:In this review, the issues related to corpse disposal were addressed. It was found that traditional burial can directly affect the soil and underground water, due to the leachate, also denominated as necro slurry. It can carry several pollutants, from organic ions (eg. nitrate, nitrate, sulfates), to inorganic ions (eg. As, Fe, Cu, Cs. Pb, etc), bacteria, and viruses (eg. Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Streptococcus faecalis, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium”
It should also be borne in mind that this study was carried out in the United States cemeteries, which implies burial within coffins, unlike Islamic funeral traditions
Better to assume that we’re too backwards as a species to get rid of religion (in any form) any time soon, and spend our efforts trying to work out how to accommodate people.
For their information, many are sent back to the countries of their homes to be buried as recently as last month, the framework of a Canadian friend delivered to his circle of relatives for the burial, many are already buying the insurance to pay for Such occasion and the position is about it.
People can choose were they wish to be buried if they can afford it but many can’t.
Japan is unusually difficult to replace or adopt by any Japanese approach or UN way of life for so many reasons that many don’t understand, but other people seem to be happy.
People are cremated, buried under the floor, in the sea, in river beds, even cremated above the floor of the floors for someone to claim that the quality of the water on the floor can be affected is inaccurate, there is more than drinking water that is affected Commercial waste and illegal dumping.
This is the lack of understanding and adoption of another lifestyle, and I would not be surprised if this is motivated or even supported through the cremation industry for an imaginable loser in business.
People are cremated, buried underground, in the sea, in the beds of the river, even cremated above the ground
Good
Conclusion: In this review, questions similar to cadaver disposal were discussed. It has been discovered that classical burial can directly affect soil and groundwater, due to leachate, also referred to in the form of Necro suspension. It can send various pollutants, biological ions (e. g. , nitrate, nitrate, sulfates), inbiological ions (e. g. , Fe, Cu, Cs. Pb, etc. ), bacteria and viruses (e. g. Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Streptococcus faecalis, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium »
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653522025188
The article only explains how it can be complicated for Muslims to locate a position and many comments that there are one hundred percent of Japanese Muslims! What will you tell those nationals? Change your faith? Being buried in a Muslim country away from your Japanese family?
What a spirit and lack of respect
The article only explains how complicated it can be for Muslims to locate a position and many comments that there are one hundred percent Japanese Muslims.
You realize there are Islamic burial sites in Japan, right? The article isn’t about whether or not they should or shouldn’t exist, the article is about dealing with the issue of an increasing population without the burial sites to match.
After a plea of a Muslim resident who told him to live in Japan “is very difficult” for his circle of relatives due to the lack of tombs.
Technically, the “lack of graves” makes life difficult.
Of course, it is a wisdom before coming to Herearray . . . . . . .
Why is the government’s duty? The mosques settle.
My original tradition is to be buried in underground coffin. But if I retire in Japan, I will stay with local traditions, or even only ashes according to the procedures and legislation available. I will not see to move my advice to Japan or start asking the Japanese to meet my needs. If necessary, I will ask that my frame is sent to my advice to be buried there.
It is not only culture for which the Japanese are almost all cremated, it is the funerary space. Any foreigner or other from a Christian background will have to settle for this cremation in Japan upon their death is more likely than burial.
Muslims will only have to settle for the fact that they will have to be more flexible in a country like Japan and that the exceptionalism policies of Muslim and Western countries do not apply here. And they shouldn’t. Some of the benefits of living in Japan without adapting in the case of some.
They impose their cultures in Japanese at all
If they just buy their own land and do their own burials, why does the government have to be involved?Not one yen of public cash will be used
It will be a wonderful advertising opportunity to take advantage.
There are some Japanese tombs in Australia in northern Australia that date from pieces about 150 years ago.
I how they were won then?
I believe that if it is not illegal, then sensible funeral halls will be located in the network of museums to live and pass to Japan.
Look at the legend symbol for an example of how these other people are “inclusive. “
Well, it turns out that the Japanese already know this by denying intelligent funeral thinking.
Myself in one aspect of the war parties plan in this case.
The cemeteries are a stupid waste of land that only puts a lot in the following generations. The earth will have to be used to obtain advantages of the living, not the dead. The country is already full of shaved mountain sides to accommodate thousands of tombs, the last thing you want to have to begin to assign more land because other people have an even less effective way to space their dead.
My burial, I hope it’s Belike Donnie by Big Lebowski.
It’s better to assume that we’re too much back as a species to get rid of faith (anyway) anytime soon
It is transparent that the TG solution is to put their religion in the wonderful government with pleasure, to awaken the indoctrination and empire push of the pharmaceutical conglomerates. What a visionary you are: the worship systems that think drag screens for young people and experimental bumps are “Progress!”
They had to buy land / assets for their mosques / prayer rooms
What’s stopping them from doing the same for their cemeteries?
I know some Muslims in Japan and from what I heard, they have more than enough budget for such things.
Government approval stops them.
The local approval stops them.
Due to considerations on underground water pollution, which is valid?
JBONE LORD
The Japanese are very insular, “correct”?
Sometimes, the explanation of why for the opposition is a mask, well, the opposition, “no”?
Many other people here show a lack and appreciation of Japanese culture and society here:
Courtesy and Japanese tolerance, and the inclusion and freedom of religion.
It is a nation’s obligation to serve its citizens and accommodate their religious needs, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or religion.
Japan has signed and ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, all of which uphold religious freedom and prohibit discrimination, principles also enshrined in Japan’s Constitution (Article 20).
I am familiar with Japanese law, but are those communities in a position to buy land themselves and use it as a cemetery? I think that
Legally, there is nothing that prevents them from buying land and opening their own Muslim cemeteries.
Many Catholic sects and other Christians have their own cemeteries for intact burial.
Japan has signed and ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, all of which uphold religious freedom and prohibit discrimination, principles also enshrined in Japan’s Constitution (Article 20).
Again, no one forbids them from buying land and practicing their own burial customs.
If you choose to come to Japan you must adapt to Japan. Japan should not adapt to you! I am not Buddhist but when I die I will have a Buddhist funeral and burial. If you don’t like the way it is then move country. Nobody was forced to come to Japan. Not recently anyway.
Again..
Japan WaryArray.
Look at the one in Europe. .
Local or national governments are not responsible for responding to other people’s religious views.
Governments have bigger ones to solve.
I have the impression that there are some other people who think that the solution is to buy land and use it for a cemetery.
It’s that simple, even close, even if, traditionally speaking, the Japanese themselves were buried and cremated.
Not the Muslim requirement of having to bury a user within 24 hours of death. A little difficult to do in a country that, according to the law, demands an autopsy in an incalculable number of cases and at least 24 hours, through the law, in Japan, before a user can be cremated or buried, what which is in the fact of the wishes of the Muslim community.
Not to mention there are many communities that require, by law, the body be cremated
Does this “location” offer the entire Muslim network in Japan? How many other cemeteries will or are mandatory for your needs?
nickybuttToday 09:47 am JST
If you decide to come to Japan, you want to adapt to Japan. Japan does not adapt to you! I am not yet a Buddhist when I die, I will have a Buddhist funeral and burial. If you don’t like how it is, move the country. No one was forced to come to Japan. Not recently anyway.
Democratic and loose nations come and are forced to devote the Solta. If you don’t like it, then maybe Japan is not an adequate position for you.
When you come to Japan, you’ll have to make do with regulations and culture. If he can’t, he is loose to locate another house, but he already knows before he comes.
NickyButttody 09:47 JST JST
If you decide to come to Japan, you want to adapt to Japan. Japan does not adapt to you! I am not yet a Buddhist when I die, I will have a Buddhist funeral and burial. If you don’t like how it is, move the country. No one was forced to come to Japan. Not recently anyway.
There are many Japanese Muslims.
If Japan allows freedom of faith and forces immigrants to adopt their faith, it would be a violation of human rights and a devout persecution.
Just about all religions can – and should ‘ show flexibility. In Indonesia, the biggest Islamic nation on earth, alcohol is extremely popular (except in the extreme areas like Aceh), despite it being “haram”.
Most Christians can adapt to cremation, even if, traditionally, “it is not acceptable” in Catholicism, for example.
In a nation as land-poor as Japan, these religious folk will simply have to consider being flexible and accepting cremation. The other option is to repatriate the dead body to their home nations.
Democratic and loose nations come and are forced to devote the release
I am not sure of “support” there.
They should have freedom of religion. You are free to believe whatever you like about an afterlife.
Governments deserve not to do things like appropriating land for those beliefs, because their resources and bandwidth are limited, just like the Earth.
Believe what you like. Do not obstruct others with him.
There are many small islands in Japan and nobody lives.
If Muslims pay it for their own wallets, it could be imaginable that they buy such an uninhabited island and use it as a personal cemetery. They can also build a mosque there and buy their own motor boat to join it with the closure. Isla Mayor. Only my suggestion.
In general terms, Japan is not a Muslim country. If you place it “very difficult” to live here due to the lack of help for your religion, you deserve to move to another country that is more productive for you.
There are cemeteries for foreigners in Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki, and elsewhere where deceased foreigners are buried in lead-lined coffins. They are now full so only new burials by families already with a grave. They have existed for more than 100 years.
Not the Muslim requirement of having to bury a user within 24 hours of death. A bit difficult to do in a country that, according to the law, requires an autopsy in an untold number of cases and at least 24 hours, through the law in Japan
Autopsies are only when the cause of death is unknown or comes to murder. The number of autopsies is very low.
It is one hundred percent a personal matter, not a public matter. If land, also known as burial plots, is necessary, buy it personally. 1 yen of public cash will not be spent on this waste!
The Constitution protects freedom of faith, which means that governments, local and central, cannot impose any restriction to save other people from the following religions that also imply nutrition and how other people are treated.
As long as they fund it within their community it’s ok.
As long as they fund it within their community, it’s okay
Just, period.
The government does not use taxpayer cash to pay for people’s devout opinions.
However, it faces considerations of physical fitness conditions. I am qualified to give an opinion on this.
Only to upload to my previous article about the fact that it is a land use, you can see more main points in the proposal on the online page of the city here:
https://www. town. hiji. lg. jp/kurashi_tetsuzuki/gomi_kankyo_eisei/eisei/2990. html
The proposal consists in 4,943 square meters of land to create 79 individual funeral plots.
This corresponds to an average of 63 square meters consisting of the funeral plot, dedicating so many land to two funeral plots as what a Japanese suburban space typical of a circle of relatives of 4 occupies.
Or in words that devote about twice as much land to the dead as the average living person.
If you were to extrapolate that to the entire 350,000 Muslims living in Japan their burials would take up more land area than Tokyo. This is probably a bit misleading since the one proposed here is in a rural area where they don’t seem to be trying to minimize its footprint, but still it does demonstrate the problem of trying to accomodate this custom on any meaningful scale.
Jimizo
However, it faces considerations of physical fitness conditions. I am qualified to give an opinion on this.
Foreigners have been buried in lead-lined coffins for more than 100 years. The lead lining prevents any leakage from the corpse even after the wood coffin has rotted.
How do you explain the millions of people buried in coffins in the UK? Is no one in your family buried? In the UK there are no lead-lined coffins unless the people died from an infectious disease like HIV.
Foreigners have been buried in lead-lined coffins for more than 100 years. The lead lining prevents any leakage from the corpse even after the wood coffin has rotted.
How do you explain the millions of people buried in coffins in the UK? Is no one in your family buried? In the UK there are no lead-lined coffins unless the people died from an infectious disease like HIV
Only point. If the physical conditioning criteria required in fashionable Japan are respected, this would eliminate the problem. As I said, I don’t know those criteria.
Jimizo
Foreigners have been buried in lead-lined coffins for more than 100 years. The lead lining prevents any leakage from the corpse even after the wood coffin has rotted.
How is the millions of other people enter coffins in the United Kingdom? Nobody in his circle of relatives is buried? In the United Kingdom, there are no lead attacks unless other people have died of an infectious disease like HIV
Only point. If the physical conditioning criteria required in fashionable Japan are respected, this would eliminate the problem. As I said, I don’t know those criteria.
The burial is stricter in Japan than in the United Kingdom. The use of lead -lined coffins is the norm and thousands of foreigners are already buried there.
They are not asking for any public money.
Could there be an argument that if devout organizations paid taxes (absolutely scandalous as they do not), they may be waiting for the government (taxpayers employees) to be more suitable for their requests or for their requests?
Just a thought.