Japan - New Japanese online services offer subscribers opportunities to live, streamed videos of graves or memorial photos of relatives who have died. Cyberstone is one such site, run by the Kudokuin Buddhist temple in Toshima Ward. Users can see a picture of a departed family member or special memorial message.
The Buddhist temple Honkokuji provides the service whereby a bereaved relative can use a remote-control system to use one of three cameras set up in its graveyard to cyber-visit a tomb of a departed loved one. The site has about 1,000 hits a month. These services allow users to visits their departed's resting place day or night, unhampered by weather or distance.
"An increasing number of people have been finding it hard to visit the tombs of their ancestors," says a senior monk at Kudokuin, Nyokai Matsushima. The veneration of ancestors is a predominant religious attitude in Japan.
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