현대일본의 무연사회와 장례문화의 변용 -多死시대의 도래-

Abstract

The main subject was created in order to follow how the culture of death changed by rapid change of population composition recently. It also describes that the social-pathological-phenomenon caused by low birthrate and longevity, a tendency of late marriage, and increase of the single-person household especially had what kind of influence on the solitary death of a society of the ‘unknown dead(孤獨死)’. Moreover, people are isolated increasingly in the Japanese society where the idea of not wanting to make trouble is emphasized too much by the family. As a result, the shocking fact that every year 32,000 people did unknown death became clear in the special program of NHK recently. Furthermore, the funeral Buddhism peculiar to Japan formed when a temple was deeply concerned with a funeral is also changing. Moreover, a crematory is also insufficient by nearly about 100 cremation rates in the shortage of graves in urban areas. It was analyzed what kind of influence such social structure change would have to the culture of death.