With an increasing number of Muslims living in Japan, there has been a growing demand for burial plots to conform with their religious beliefs 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 are considering permanently residing in the country say the limited number of burial plots makes them anxious 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 with respect to the safety of human resources for local industries.
Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. The Qur’an, Islam’s holy e-book, says that Muslims will have to be buried and resurrected after death. Cremation is strictly forbidden among practitioners of the faith.
“I think the government is more involved with the lack of attention to multiculturalism, even if it claims to be a multicultural society,” Murai said, emphasizing that there are no burial cemeteries in the Tohoku region. “Even if I’m criticized, we have to do something about it,” he added.
Elsewhere, a structure assignment for a giant funeral cemetery promoted through the Muslim Association of Beppu, a devout society in Hiji, Oita Prefecture in southwestern Japan, was indefinitely discouraged due to opposition from the city’s mayor.
First of all, the plan had seemed to be fine. In 2023, local citizens approved the land sales plan that belongs to the municipal government, as long as you are happy with the site ordinances. The city was not opposed.
The plan’s obvious elegant progress contrasts with the opposition aroused in 2018 through a plan to buy another plot. This had triggered rumors about the alleged damage, adding the effect on groundwater quality.
For the current plan, the conditions included an agreement with the residents association where the planned site is located, promising no additional burials for 20 years in plots where burials have taken place and that the groundwater would be tested once a year.
However, the scenario took a dark turn when Tetsuya Abe, who opposed the plans regarding public health considerations, won his first election offering as mayor in August 2024.
The Association’s representative, Tahir Khan, was informed that ABE had no aim to promote the conspiracy to be used as a cemetery after citizens expressed their considerations regarding the imaginable contamination of drinking water, among other questions.
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 we hope that the figures will accumulate even more, according to the city of Hiji and others, there are only 10 giant positions in Japan with funeral sites with affiliations, adding Christian sites.
The law regarding burial sites does not prohibit ground interment, and local governments can establish them if they set requirements. But according to a national survey conducted in fiscal 2023, more than 99.9 percent of cemeteries still only perform 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 in Oita who came to Japan in 2001 and became a Japanese citizen, has a child born in Japan. “We cannot give up on graves for the sake of the next generation.” he said.
The authorities should appropriate public parkland, sports fields and other public green spaces for this. The rest of us don’t need 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’s no excuse at all, especially in rural area. There are plenty spaces and abandoned houses, in fact nobody really care about that area, so public health concern just an excuse. Other countries do burial everyday, what kind of disease they have? Another ridiculous Japanese excuse.
@Asdfghjkl
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.
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 network can be informed: “When it is in Romearray . . . “
Why have other people stayed in the afterlife from where other people claim other people?While in Rome, other people don’t eat NATO beans.
Here another one, in many Asian countries, many toilet doesn’t provide tissue only water, guess how many western foreigners can really comply with that.
Japan is very careful!
@vanstar
Japan really addicted with cheap labor, so Japan need to fulfill those labor needs.
He answers to himself.
This is going to sound hard, but what if it becomes local faith or according to the Japanese lifestyle if one needs to live here?
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.
. . . 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 know Japanese law, but can’t those communities buy land by themselves and use it as a cemetery?I think
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 home country, where their remains will be buried according to their religion. It doesn’t mean enforcing yours on others.
They need to conform to the social norms here, or stop 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 become local faith or someone else according to the Japanese way of life if you need to live here? “
It does not seem difficult, in fact, other people become, but for other reasons such as love, marriage, replacement of faith, etc. , but I recommend that other people deserve to become because ignorance and lack of understanding are ignorant in itself.
People can decide how they need to be buried and for that this article is used.
@Gorramcowboy
In a country already with a limited space, they would wait too long.
You don’t only think that Japan only Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Kobe right?
There are vast empty lands throughout Japan, now many lands are even more in Japan.
https://asia. nikkei. com/spotlight/asia-insight/japan-real-estate-regovery-defies-decline-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 do not impose their cultures in Japanese, does this article ask the Japanese again to avoid cremation? They only ask for land that will already have to be a place of burial, which requires the approval of the local government.
@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 the challenge with public cemeteries lately in Japan?Cremation performed in Japan is secular and does not signify any devout ceremony.
They already acquired land, they only need local government permission, which can be vary from place to place. Even better, if local government claim they friendly to foreigners, they can prove that statement by providing all needs for foreigners, including burial. H
They have already acquired land, they want the authorization of the local government, which can vary from one position to another.
No, they didn’t have permission. According to the article permission was rescinded because there was a potential threat of contaminating the ground water. That sounds like a pretty justified reason to rescind permission, no?
I think the Muslim community will end up funding private land for burial and comply with regulations.
The consultation of underground water contamination turns out to be staged to save the idea.
Most Western countries have very large areas set aside for burial, and this issue has never arisen, to my knowledge.
I think water contamination in Japan comes from industry and farming practices.
@Factchecker
You are welcome. Japan does not begin to bend to an express organization of people. If they need burial plots, they buy the land, they pass through the documents and order it themselves.
The thing for burial permission is really depend on local government, many local government in Japan they want foreign cheap labor, they want those worker pension money, those worker local tax. However when it comes to cater those worker needs, then it comes sucking teeth moment.
@Gurumick
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 spaces reserved for burial, and this challenge has never emerged, which I know.
That water pollution in Japan comes from industrial and agricultural practices.
There are many hills or mountains in rural Japan, where other people live miles. This may take almost an hour in the closest 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 permission was rescinded because there was a potential threat of contaminating the ground water. That sounds like a pretty justified reason to rescind permission, no?
Exactly what I said, permission. Buying land and houses in Japan is easy, can anyone do it abroad, don’t forget that there is a Chinese woman who bought the total island last year?
Ground water excuse, that’s coincidentally just happened when new mayor being elected, at least what written in that article.
Ground water excuse, that’s coincidentally just happened when new mayor being elected, at least what written in that article.
Could you post one or anything that supports your statement?Is it just an excuse? I’m going to wait.
@JboneInTheZone
The association’s representative, Tahir Khan, was told that Abe had no goal of promoting the plot to be used as a cemetery after citizens expressed considerations about the imaginable contamination of drinking water, among other issues.
The fact is that it is based on science or is based on rumors, don’t forget that many countries have an outage site without any problems.
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.
Underground water, that just made up excuse
It is not an excuse. Muslims are not buried in coffins. I would dare to say that a gigantic number of rotten bodies is a justified explanation of why being involved in pollution.
They were able to purchase lands/properties for their Mosques/prayer rooms
What’s stopping them from doing the same for their cemeteries?
I know some Muslims in Japan and for what I heard, they have a more than enough budget for those things.
Lots of chemical hydrologists on the forum this morning, “I,d wager to say “
Concerned about their long career when they are dead and their bodies break down. A very unsatisfied person.
@GuruMick
And I’m sure the above “change” may be why the multitude of outage sites in Sydney, some more than a century old, don’t seem to have affected the water.
Exactly! Whether citizen concern is real or not can be proven scientifically.
The thing is that it is based on science or founded on rumors
It’s science based:
Conclusion: In this review, questions similar to the elimination of the body were discussed. It has been discovered that the classic burial can directly the soil and groundwater, due to leachate, also called necro suspension. You can send several pollutants, biological ions (for example, nitrate, nitrate, sulfates), inbiological ions (for example, such as faith, cu, cs. PB, etc. ), bacteria and viruses (for example, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Streptococcus faecalis, clostridium perfringens, clostridium »
Also keep in the brain that these studies were carried out in cemeteries in the United States, which implies burial within coffins, unlike Islamic funeral traditions
Better assumes that we are too back as a species to get rid of faith (in any form in the short term, and pass our efforts to discover how to welcome people.
FYI, many are being sent back to their homeland to be buried as recent as last month a Canadian friend body was actually delivered to his family for burial, many are already buying the insurance to pay for such an event and the cost is about the same.
People can decide if they need to be buried if they can, but many cannot.
Japan is unusually difficult to change or adopt to any un Japanese method or lifestyle for so many reasons that many don’t understand but people seem to be happy.
People are incinerated, buried underground, in the sea, in riverbeds, even incinerated above ground on a basis, so for anyone to claim that the quality of floor water can be affected is inaccurate, there is more than just drinking water that is affected through commercial waste and illegal dumping.
This is a lack of understanding and adoption of another way of life, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is motivated or even supported through the cremation industry for an imaginable wear and tear business.
People are cremated, buried underground, in the sea, in river beds, even cremated above ground
Not true
”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”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653522025188
The article simply explain how it can be hard for muslims to find a place and many comments forget there are 100% Japanese muslims ! What will you say to those nationals ? Change your faith ? Be buried in a muslim country far from your Japanese family?
What a brain and disrespect. . .
The article only explains how complicated Muslims can locate a position and many comments that there are one hundred percent Japanese Muslims.
You realize that there are Islamic burial sites in Japan, right? The article does not fear whether or not they exist or not, the article fears the query of an expanding population without the burial sites corresponding.
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 tombs” hinders life.
Of course this was knowledge before coming here……..
Why is it the duty of government? 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 on Japanese
If they only buy their own lands and get their own burials, why does the government participate? An effective public will not be used and in
This will be an excellent business opportunity for someone to take on.
There are some Japanese tombs in Australia in northern Australia that date from pieces about 150 years ago.
How were they welcome then?
I guess if it’s not illegal, then some wise funeral homes will find a way to help the musilm community to live and pass on in 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.
I find myself siding with opponents of the plan on this one.
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 funeral, I hope it’s Belike Donnie del Gran Lebowski.
Better suppose we are too back as a species to get rid of faith (in any form) in the short term
It is transparent that the TG solution is to put its religion in the wonderful government with pleasure, arouse indoctrination and the pushed empire of pharmaceutical conglomerates. What a visionary you are: the worship systems that think that drag screens for young people and experimental blows are “Progress!”
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
Local Government approval is stopping them.
Local approval stops them.
Because of considerations about groundwater contamination, it is valid. No?
Jbone sir
Are the other Japanese people very island, “no”?
Sometimes the reason for opposition is a mask for being, well, oppositional , “no “?
Many other people here show a lack and appreciation of Japanese culture and society here:
The Japanese value politeness and tolerance, and inclusivity and freedom of religion.
It is the legal responsibility of the nation to serve its citizens and meet their needs, regardless of nationality, ethnicity or religion.
Japan has signed and ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Alliance of Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Constitution of Japan (Article 20).
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
Legally, nothing 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 Alliance of Civil and Political Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, all of which devour freedom and prohibit discrimination, the The Constitution of Japan also enshrined principles (article 20).
Once again, no one forbids them to buy land and practice their own customs of burial.
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. .
Careful Japan..
Look at Europe’s.
Local or national governments are not responsive to the devout views of the people.
Governments have larger to solve.
I have the impression that there are many other people who think that the solution is to buy land and use it for a cemetery.
It is not that simple, even close, although traditionally speaking, the Japanese themselves were buried and incinerated.
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, before a user can be cremated or buried, which goes in the fact of the wishes of the Muslim community.
Without forgetting that there are many communities that require, through the law, the framework is incinerated
Will this “one” location service the entire Muslim community of Japan? How many different cemeteries will be, or are necessary for their needs.
nickybuttToday 09:47 am JST
If you come to Japan, you must adapt to Japan. Japan should 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 has been 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 need to accept the rules and culture. If you can not, you are free to find another home but you should already know this before coming.
NickyButttody 09:47 JST JST
If you come to Japan, you must adapt to Japan. Japan should 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 has been forced to come to Japan. Not recently anyway.
There are many Japanese Muslims as well.
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.
Almost all religions can, and deserve to be flexible. In Indonesia, the world’s largest Islamic country, alcohol is excessively popular (except in excessive spaces such as Aceh), it is “haram. “
Most Christians can adapt to cremation, even if, traditionally, “it is not acceptable” in Catholicism, for example.
In a country as ground-deficient as Japan, those devoted other people will only have to be flexible and accept cremation. The other option is to repatriate the body from its countries of origin.
Democratic and loose nations come and are forced to devote the release
I am sure of the use of “support” there.
They deserve to have loosened from religion. You are loose to everything you love in a life after death.
Governments deserve not to do things like appropriating land for those ideals because their resources and bandwidth are finite, just like the Earth.
Create what you like. Don’t obstruct others with it.
There are plenty of small islands in Japan and nobody is living there.
If Muslims pay for it out their own wallet, it might be possible for them to buy such an uninhabited island and to use it as a private cemetery. They might also construct a mosque there and to buy their own motorboat to connect it with the major island nearby. Just my suggestion.
Generally said, Japan is not a Muslim country. If you find it ‘very difficult’ to live here because of a lack of support for your religion you should consider relocation to another country which fits you better.
There are cemeteries for foreigners in Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and where deceased foreigners are buried in lead-covered coffins. They are now full, so only new burials through families already with a grave. They have been around for over a hundred years.
Dont forget the Muslim requirement of needing to bury a person within 24 hours of the death. Kind of hard to do in a country that, by law, requires an autopsy in countless numbers of circumstances and at least 24 hours, by law, in Japan
Autopsies are only when the cause of death is unknown or likely involves murder. The number of autopsies are 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 the Freedom of Religion which means governments, local and central cannot place any restrictions to stop people from following religions which also involves diet and often how deceased people are dealt with.
While finance it in your community, it’s fine.
Since he is funded in his community, he leaves
Just, note.
The government does not use taxpayer cash to pay for people’s devout opinions.
However, it deals with considerations about the conditions of physical aptitude. I am qualified to give an opinion on this subject.
Only to climb to my previous article on that this is a misuse of the Earth, you can see more main points on the city’s proposal here:
https://www. town. hiji. lg. jp/kurashi_tetsuzuki/gomi_kankyo_eisei/eisei/2990. html
The proposal is to use 4,943 square metres of land to create 79 individual burial plots.
This corresponds to an average of 63 square meters consistent with the funeral plot, dedicating as much land to two funerary plots as a typical Japanese suburban space of a circle of relatives of 4 occupies.
Or in other words devoting about twice as much land to dead people as the average living person enjoys.
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 deals with considerations about the conditions of physical aptitude. I am qualified to give an opinion on this subject.
Foreigners have been buried in coffins covered with lead for more than a hundred years. The cable covering avoids any corpse leakage even after the rot of the wooden coffin.
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 coffins covered with lead for more than a hundred years. The cable covering avoids any corpse leakage even after the rot of the wooden coffin.
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.
Jimizo
Foreigners have been buried in coffins covered with lead for more than a hundred years. The cable covering avoids any corpse leakage even after the rot of the wooden coffin.
How are millions of other people in coffins in the United Kingdom? Nobody in your circle of relatives is buried? In the United Kingdom, there are no coffins covered with lead unless other people have died of an infectious disease such as HIV.
Just period. If the fitness criteria required in trendy Japan are respected, this would eliminate the problem. As I said, I don’t know those criteria.
The needs of the burial are stricter in Japan than in the United Kingdom. The use of the main coffins is and thousands of foreigners are already buried there.
They ask for 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.