FUKUOKA, Japan -- Muslims living in Japan have a hard time trying to find land for burials in a country where interment is rare and faces a cultural barrier.
Japan immigration
Muslims struggle to bury their dead in Japan, a nation of cremation
Interment is rare and often meets opposition from local residents
Zafar Saeed, a Muslim from Pakistan who has acquired Japanese citizenship, visits the grave of his eldest son, lost in a miscarriage, in Beppu, Oita Prefecture.
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