Gaijin Grave Reprieve

[Mulboyne]

Should this be in the Dead Gaijins thread?

Yomiuri: Foreign graves in Aoyama to be saved
The Tokyo metropolitan government is to preserve the foreigners' graveyard in the municipal Aoyama Reien cemetery in Minato Ward, Tokyo...Following cemetery regulations, the government in October put up signs in front of 78 graves whose management fees had not been paid for more than five years, saying graves that were not paid for within one year would be recategorized as graves of unknown persons...The 78 graves include that of Arthur Lloyd, a British professor of Tokyo Imperial University who translated Konjiki Yasha "The Golden Demon," American Dr. D.B. Simmons, and Carl Flaig, a German who was general manager of the Imperial Hotel during the period. Graves that are not paid for are normally removed, but visitors to the graveyard who saw the signs asked the metropolitan government to preserve the graves. As a result, the government decided in principle to preserve them after evaluating their historical value

[gomichild]

Just to hand - a group of concerned gaijin untrusting of this promise have set up the Gaijin Bochi Preservation Society - their aims are to raise not only awareness of the rich heritage symbolized by the tombs but also money to preserve the graves and beautify the section.

http://www.ii-idea.com/

Go have a lookie!

[This is a pen]

Cremate me, and dump me in the ocean.


Then no one will bother me for Dues, Rent, Back Taxes, Contact Renewal, Kick Backs or.... Maintenance Fees.

[AssKissinger]

I don't care where you bury my body when I'm dead and gone.

[Big Booger]

I'm going to be preserved so that when technology improves, I can come back in theory.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13718

Have a read of that thread for the details.

[FG Lurker]

I'm going to be preserved so that when technology improves, I can come back in theory.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13718

Have a read of that thread for the details.

Talk about a culture-shock inducing event. If you're "brought back" 10 years after you croak it might not be so bad. But 100 years? 200?

Imagine someone from circa 1800 England being "brought back" at the present time. I don't think they'd handle it very well.

(I'm not saying it's a bad idea to preserve yourself... Just that anyone who does might not like the reality they reanimate to.)

[kuri]

Two members of the Foreign Section Trust (briefly formerly-known-as the Gaijin Bochi Preservation Society) paid a visit to the cemetery offices today to get some information. But now this is an international incident and they were referred to an office of the Tokyo government.

There they were told that only family members are allowed to pay off the debts on the graves. But there are no families known, so these dead foreigners may soon be well and truly fucked gaijin.

You can read all the details about it at http://www.ii-idea.com

(Disclaimer: I am a member of the FST)

[Mulboyne]

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Tokyo scraps eviction policy for tombs of foreigners at Aoyama
The Tokyo metropolitan government will allow companies and others to take over unattended tombs of foreigners--including some prominent figures--to prevent their eviction from Aoyama Cemetery. The metropolitan government will allow companies, schools, embassies and others to pay the annual maintenance fees for those tombs if the payers prove they have a close historical association with the deceased...Anthony Millington, head of the society [see kuri's link above] and a former British diplomat, said members are concerned about what will happen to the graves that are not claimed...more...

[GuyJean]

There's probably another thread about this, but I couldn't find it


Tokyo Scraps Eviction Policy for Tombs of Foreigners at Aoyama
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200510190228.html

The Tokyo metropolitan government will allow companies and others to take over unattended tombs of foreigners--including some prominent figures--to prevent their eviction from Aoyama Cemetery.

The metropolitan government will allow companies, schools, embassies and others to pay the annual maintenance fees for those tombs if the payers prove they have a close historical association with the deceased.

For tombs in which no one steps forward to pay the fees, a citizens group has started an investigation to locate descendants or others close to the deceased before their remains are forcibly relocated.

Aoyama Cemetery, operated by the Tokyo metropolitan government, was established in Minato Ward in 1874.

The section for foreigners, including noted figures from the Meiji Era (1868-1912), was set up around the same time.

More than 200 foreigners were buried in 129 plots, such as Korean revolutionary Kim Ok-kyoon (1851-1894), an outspoken politician who spent many years in Japan and was assassinated in Shanghai.

GJ

[Mulboyne]

Korea also has a foreign cemetery dispute:

IHT: Sides feud over 'God's land' in Seoul

The Yanghwajin Foreigners Cemetery, the most sacred site for Protestants in South Korea, occupies a tree-shaded hill overlooking Seoul's Han River. Usually it presents a peaceful scene, where magpies hopscotch among the tombstones and slow-gaited visitors pause to read inscriptions. But over the past two years, it has become the setting for a highly charged battle between Korea's oldest, and predominantly foreign, Protestant congregation and one of the country's newest. On Aug. 5, about 2,000 members of a Korean church - established in 2005 to honor the early American missionaries buried here - took over the cemetery chapel and claimed it as their own. They locked out the congregation that was started by those same missionaries 122 years ago and had been holding services in the chapel for the past 22 years...more...

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[Oradea]

I was not aware that even after you are dead and gone, there are still plot fees to pay. Fuck that. When I die, I don`t want even 1 dollar spent on me, I will be fucking dead, who cares, douse me in petrol and set me on fire.

Do other countries have these kind of fees and such???

[Tsuru]

Well, with gas prices being what they are I wouldn't be surprised if someone asked you to pay up front just in case.

[GomiGirl]

I kinda like the idea of a viking funeral - push you out to sea in a little boat and shoot fire tipped arrows and cremate to the water line.. sounds like a great send off.

[Buraku]

Lodging houses used as morgues in Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/ ... e-morgues/

Nonstop cremations cast doubt on India
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/ ... eath-toll/

Riverfront at India’s sacred city overflowing with bodies of of COVID dead
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=Czkda_1619526063
With a mounting number of Corona dead, cremation sites at India’s holiest city, Varanasi, now resemble a war zone.