Whadaja do wit' dead FG?

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Dealing with death What happens to foreign nationals when they die in Japan?
Daily Yomiuri / Oct 25
Nobody plans to get hit by a truck or eat the wrong piece of fugu, but sooner or later everybody winds up dead. When it happens to foreigners in Japan, the aftermath may be a bit more complicated than usual.
...Governments generally want their deceased citizens' passports to be returned with the bodies, and require them to be cancelledt...In the case of deceased illegal aliens, there may be no passport to cancel in the first place.
...advice list for next of kin is: "Ask that the hospital not call their local funeral home." Japanese hospitals tend to automatically refer deaths to favored funeral homes, and families' wishes are generally not a factor, he said, calling it one of those "many things in Japan that are not laws but are accepted facts."