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Graves in Okinawa are in trouble right now. The number of applications for reburial permits (grave fouling) in the prefecture reached 4800 in one year in 2023. It has doubled in the 2 years from 2021. What is even more worrying is the “unrelated graves” that is progressing behind the increase in the number of reburial cases. A growing number of private cemeteries are stealing Okinawa's future.

●Keynote Speech “History of Okinawan Graves”
Lecturer: TAKARA Kurayoshi (Professor Emeritus, University of the Ryukyus)
Professor Emeritus at the University of the Ryukyus, Ph.D. (Literature). After graduating from Aichi University of Education, he became an expert at the Okinawa Historical Materials Editorial Office,
After working as a director of the Urasoe City Public Library, he became a professor at the University of the Ryukyus. Nakaima is the vice governor of Okinawa Prefecture in the prefectural government. Supervisor of the taiga drama “Ryukyu no Kaze.” Chairman of the technical review committee for the restoration of Shuri Castle.

●Panel discussion
“Okinawa Graves Symposium
Stop the Unrelated Tomb: I won't do it, I won't increase it”
Moderator: Tsutsumi Junichiro (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association Chairman and Professor Emeritus, University of the Ryukyus)
Panelists:
Yokota Mutsumi (Executive Director and Chief Researcher, All Japan Cemeteries Association)
Uehara Osamu (Okinawa Prefecture Judicial Scriveners Association Chairman)
Manabu Yamairi (National Vacant House Advisors Council Okinawa Prefecture Nago Branch Secretary General)
Aragaki Masahide (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Development Association councilor, former Naha city planning department manager)
Shimada Satoko (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association councilor, former Naha City Environment Department Director)

●Time table
Moderators: Taku Yanagi/Naomi Tomei
13:30 Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association's 30-year history (video)
13:45 Opening Remarks Yashiro Masaaki (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association Director)
13:50 Letter of Appreciation Presented Gushiken Yotaka
14:00 Keynote speech “History of Okinawan Graves” TAKARA Kurayoshi (Professor Emeritus, University of the Ryukyus)
14:40 Okinawa Graves Symposium “Stop the Unrelated Graves: Don't Do, Don't Increase”
1. Data shows Okinawan graves current edition
Saito Manabu (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association Secretary General)
2. panel discussion
16:05 Imagining the future of graves
A future grave-visiting experience where you can meet the deceased with the metaverse and AI
16:10 Okinawa Graves Symposium Proposals for the Future
Tsutsumi Junichiro (Okinawa Prefecture Memorial Maintenance Association Chairman and Professor Emeritus, University of the Ryukyus)
Closing at 16:30

Capacity：150 people

https://oki-memorial.org/30thanniversary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tW00IMJDjM