Cloud-brushing skyscrapers, flashing neon and seas of salarymen. The rhythmic whisk of matcha in the stillness of a tatami mat tea room. The dancing hands of a sushi chef slicing sashimi on a cypress ...

In Buddhism, spirits of the uncremated cannot be reincarnated until monks perform proper rites. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

The Lang Pacha ritual offers dignity to the nameless dead and calls attention to the need for better systems to identify those who die after going missing.