Comments on: Summertime, and the dying is expensive http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/summertime-and-the-dying-is-expensive/ How to make, save and spend money in Japan. Tue, 21 May 2013 23:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ren http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/summertime-and-the-dying-is-expensive/comment-page-1/#comment-25209 Ren Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:47:37 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/yen-for-living/?p=1566#comment-25209 I remember my Japanese professor. His father died and he went home for a while , for the funeral and ceremonies. When he came back, he told us that he finds the funeral in Japan expensive and exaggerated. His siblings preferred to opt for more characters for their father’s Buddhist name and the estimated cost was more than 1 M yen (name alone).
Japanese society is full of ceremonies, which means costly too.

It’s hard to break tradition, but then,again, Japan is not the same as before. Economically, that is.

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