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The Funeral in Contemporary Japanese Society

The Company-sponsored Funeral of the Founder. Arrangement and Creation of the Most Important Funeral Service in the Company’s History

Hirochika Nakamaki    National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan    

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The company-sponsored funeral represents a fundamental event in company’s life. In particular, the funeral of its founder presents some peculiar features in comparison with other types of company-sponsored funeral. In this paper, I will investigate the arrangement and the creation of the founder’s funeral through the analysis of three significant examples, namely the ceremonies for Matsushita Konosuke (Panasonic), Ibuka Masaru and Morita Akio (Sony).

Accettato
27 Marzo 2017
Presentato
29 Giugno 2016
Lingua
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-150-8
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-151-5

Keywords: Company’s Founder • Sony • Sociology • Company-sponsored Funeral • Matsushita Denki

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-151-5/CFJS-6-5

Copyright: © 2017 Hirochika Nakamaki. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.