1. Procedure for holding a wake and funeral

2. Schedule after the funeral

1. Visit and send an acknowledgment letter
2. Payment and return of rented things
3. Religious service held on the seventh day after death
4. Giving a token in acknowledgment of the obituary gift
5. Workplace of the deceased
6. Reception of benefits
7. Reception of life insurance
8. National pension
9. Articles left by the deceased to be shared as mementos
10. Preparation for a memorial service in the end of mourning
11. Preparation for Hon-ihai formal mortuary tablet and a Butsudan house hold Buddhist altar
12. Graveyard and tombstone
13. Memorial service in the end of mournig
14. Burying and laying ashes to rest
15. Inheritance of a legacy
16. Transfer of legacy real estate, share certificate, bank account, telephone,car
17. Application and payment of the inheritance tax
18. Final return of the decedent
19. Application for the return of medical expense deduction
20. Bon : The Buddhist all Souls Day
21. The first anniversary of death, an anniversary service

3. Description on traditional practice concerning funerals

• Greeting to the neighbors
• Greeting to peoples who helped during the funeral
• Greeting to elder peoples
• Send acknowledgement letters of condolence telegram,floral and other offerings.
• Send the death notice after the funeral
• Write the death notice to be on the board

• Hospital and neighboring stores like liquor shop
• Receipts in custody

• Preparation and procedure of the religious service

• Put records of received obituary gift in order by the amount
• Timing for sending tokens to mourners
• The price range of tokens
• Choice of the gift as the token
• Manner to provide tokens
• An acknowledgment notice of the incense money using thick Japanese paper

• Return ID card and document
• Remove personal effects out of the desk and the locker
• Confirm the pay adjustment, severance pay, social insurance, welfare pension

• The national health insurance, social insurance, workmen s accident compensation insurance

• Contact the insurance company and prepare required forms
• Postal life insurance
• Housing loan carrying life insurance

• Give a request for a national pension to municipalities
• Survivors pension
• Widows pension
• Temporary death benefit

• Classify the articles into those distributable and disposable
• Share articles among family and relatives
• Make a plan for reforming distributed articles

• Settle up a schedule for the memorial service : Date, invited guests, place and invitation
• Make an arrangement with the priest : Reception, number of guests, contribution
• Make an arrangement for the memorial service and a treat : Dishes and gifts

• Replace a plain wood mortuary tablet with the formal black one
• Select desired household Buddhist altar : made of rare foreign wood or gilding
• Obtain advice for making a good purchase of a Buddhist altar

• Set up a tombstone
• Settle the schedule for setting up the tombstone
• Make a good choice of the graveyard
• Information on cemetery parks

• Procedure of the memorial service
• Dishes served as a treat

• Ceremony of burial of ashes

• Confirm as to the presence or absence of will
• Agreement on partition of the legacy
• A legal heir
• Refusal of inheritance

• Reception desk, required form and fee

• Evaluate the legacy
• Identify the property exempt from taxation
• Calculate the inheritance tax
• Delayed payment and payment in kind

• Executed by a legal heir within 4 months from the succession

• More than 100,000 yen of total medical expense is deductible
• Receipts are required

• Prepare for Bon
• Make a plan for spending Shin-Bon period as the first Bon from the death

• How to count the anniversary
• Preparation for a memorial service
• Procedure for the memorial service
• Dishes served in funeral service