When a foreign person deceases in Japan
First of all, you must choose whether you take the body or cremate the body and take the ashes.
Many people prefer to take the body back home, however, it would cost large amount of money, therefore, it is better to cremate the body and take the ashes.
These are the difficulties to take the body to overseas.
1 . It would cost to keep the body at morgue for while, sometimes the body need embalming.
2. Procedure at consulate is quite difficult. You must complete the documents both Japanese and your own language. If you are able to understand Japanese, you can complete the documents with funeral service person in a few day, but if you let the funeral service to do everything, it would take a week to complete.
3. It is quite difficult to book an airplane which carries the body.
If you need some assistance, please call 0532-34-1550 (Fukaya)









