Nature's embrace: Japan's aging urbanites and new death rites

Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-221

  Kawano, Satsuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

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