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The death which means end of life in the natural world is the one of big unavoidable problem for human and all the life. In case of human, they have ceremony which is called by funeral. There are several ways of funeral, such as cremation, burial and aerial burial it depends on culture, religion and custom. For this reason, the death of human which is universal phenomenon across individual, nation and ethnic group is closely related with formation of world’s religious culture. In case of East Asia, the ceremony that praises the deceased at national holiday and a nniversary of one’s death was developed. Because of the tradition that highly regard filial duty as ethical value. In other words, they are doing ceremony to propitiate soul of the deceased, Confucianism is at home and Buddhism is at temple. The background of this kind of ceremony is permanent wish that want to live same condition of their lifetime even after the death. The case of Japan, Buddhistic ceremony is the main through a sense of Shinto.