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Bone cleaning and burial habits are an important system that has long been practiced in Okinawa. However, the war with Okinawa caused many deaths, and traditional practices changed in the process of dealing with them. In addition, the spread of cremation and modern changes in the demographic structure have facilitated changes in the traditional tomb system. In the 1990s, the number of "reien-type(靈園型) graveyards" operated by religious corporations and public interest corporations that were neither private graveyards nor family graveyards increased rapidly, which had a great impact on bone-washing and reburial customs.