In Sendai city, Japan, an Indian Muslim man suddenly died of a heart attack. He was working at a restaurant there. After his death, the family refused to bear the cost of sending the body back to India. The family said that sending the body back to their country was too expensive, and they did not have that much money. Citing Islamic religious beliefs, the family also did not want the body to be cremated. They were demanding that the body only be buried. In Japan, the tradition for final rites is to cremate the body. More than 99.9 percent of funerals in the country are done by cremation. This is because Japan has a dense population and limited land, and people there believe that burying bodies damages the land, which affects the environment, soil, and drinking water sources. The family does not want to bear the cost of taking the body back to their country, but wants to claim rights over Japan’s limited land and resources. Following this incident, the local Muslim community also demanded that the administration build a burial cemetery. Later, consideration was given to building a new cemetery, but the plan was canceled due to opposition from local people and the lack of consent from the local administration.