It is an abnormal situation to bury a large number of bodies jointly and collectively.

Kokichi Nishimura

At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the bodies were decided to be temporarily buried and then "re-buried". The director of a funeral company in Miyagi Prefecture, who was responsible for the hard work of digging up the dead bodies, had been taking pains to devise how to perform the last rite of the bereaved and to provide psychological care to a team of nine members throughout the unusual situation in Ishinomaki City. From the research report on "Re-bury" by Takemichi Odajima, a student of Tohoku Gakuin University (carried in "Awakened Earthquake Science Of Spirituality" edited by Kiyoshi Kanebishi)

"April 19  2019

from “Oriori no Kotoba” by Kiyokazu Washida, The Asahi Shimbun"