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Most Japanese homes maintain Buddhist altars, or butsudan (仏壇), for use in Buddhist ceremonies; and many also have Shinto shrines, or kamidana (神棚). When a death occurs, the shrine is closed and covered with white paper to keep out the impure spirits of the dead, a custom called kamidana-fūji (神棚封じ).
Imperial Japanese Army, police and vigilantes 6,000+ Multiple incidents, including the Fukuda Village Incident: May 1928: Kobe shooting: Kobe: Chinese man 7 [13]-12 [14] (including the perpetrator) 11 or 7 Japanese were shot to death by a Chinese man in Kobe in revenge for the Jinan incident and then he committed suicide [14] [13] 5 June 1931
Cremation in Japan was originally practiced by monks seeking to emulate the cremation of the Buddha. [1] Virtually all deceased are now cremated in Japan – as of 2012, it had the highest cremation rate in the world of over 99.9%. [ 2 ]
Japanese death row inmates are imprisoned inside the detention centers of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Sapporo. Despite Tachikawa and Takamatsu having high courts, neither city has a detention center equipped with execution chambers; executions imposed by the Tachikawa and Takamatsu High Courts are carried out in the ...
TOKYO — All eight crew members aboard a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off the coast of Japan last week have been confirmed dead, the Air Force said.. The CV-22B Osprey crashed into ...
This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics . The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.
At least six people were dead as Typhoon Shanshan crept eastward through Japan on Saturday, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood warnings hundreds of ...
The Japanese government said it would review laws regulating knives, [55] [56] [57] while the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Safety Commission announced that the 35-year-old practice of closing Chūō-dōri on Sundays and holidays was to be suspended until safety measures were reviewed; [13] the practice of closing traffic on Sundays resumed in 2011 ...