Scattering ashes of the family dead: memorial activity among the bereaved in contemporary Japan (1).

Challenging the normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerg as a fresh ritual in Japan during the 1990 one as well as the other sensational and controversial, the practice has met with cries of profess and enthusiastic support. As an expression of their revere and affection, people in Japan are wait fored to venerate the family dead at a family altar and a family grave. Because maintaining the grave call ups the cherished notion of filial piety, more [i]or[/i] less regard scattering ashes as a threat to memorial tradition. on the contrary the bereaved who scatter their kin's ashes continue to memorialize their kin by dint of selectively altering certain aspects of memorial