Death in Japan

thumb|upright=1.34|A "No More Karoshi" protest in Tokyo, 2018 thumb|500px|Deaths due to long working hours per 100,000 people in 2016 (15+) thumb|right|500px|Average annual hours actually worked per worker in OECD countries from 1970 to 2020 , which can be translated into 'overwork death', is a Japanese term relating to occupation-related sudden death.

is a type of Buddhist mummy. In Japan the term refers to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive. Although mummified monks are seen in a number of Buddhist countries, especially in Southeast Asia where monks are mummified after dying of natural causes, it is believed that it is only in Japan where monks have induced their own deaths by starvation.

or lonely death is a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. First described in the 1980s, kodokushi has become an increasing problem in Japan, attributed to economic troubles and Japan's increasingly elderly population. It is also known as – "isolation death", and – "live alone death".

genre of poetry

thumb|upright=1.3|Ubasute no tsuki (The Moon of Ubasute), one of the 100 works in the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, by [[Tsukioka Yoshitoshi]]

1937 Japanese military song

overview of Japanese funerals

Japanese painting with Buddhist theme

is a Pure Land Buddhist temple in Osaka, Japan. Starting in the Meiji period, thirteen images have been formed, each incorporating the ashes of tens of thousands of devotees. The annual burial ceremony on 21 April in turn draws tens of thousands of worshippers.