Phenomenon of death and funeral tradition in Japanese culture: from ancient kofun to digital columbaria
The article, based on modern research, deals with the issue of the phenomenon of both death and digitalization of Japanese funeral culture. The ritual of farewell and burial of the deceased from the ancient kofun period to the modern historical stage is traced in the historical, cultural and philosophical context. The technologies of the 21st century offer us start-ups that allow us to plan the death, chatbots based on the data of deceased people and digital cemeteries.As a result, based on the conclusions made and the analysis of the issue under study, it concludes that global digitalization has affected all spheres of human activity and there is a possibility that the so-called traditional cemeteries will give way to digital vertical columbaria.