Blessing ceremonies? Power stones? Cultivating one’s ki energy? Gen Yers in Japan aren't just embracing these things – a growing number are spending on them, too. Amid economic turmoil and rampant Americanisation, young Japan is turning to religion for both their personal and national identities.

In Japan’s ageing society, there are often waiting lists at crematoriums. In response, a number of corpse hotels have opened up across the country, offering families a place where the bodies of their relatives can be kept in dignity until they're ready to be cremated.

Along with your new paperback book, you can now order the services of a monk from Amazon in Japan. Although the population has grown disillusioned with traditional Buddhism, in turn loosening once tight-knit temple communities, they still want the presence of a monk at rituals like funerals.

More than 25% of the Japanese population is over the age of 65. With a low birthrate and increasing life expectancy, that figure is only set to increase. Japan is renowned for its respectful and traditionally regimented attitudes towards seniors, but what does it really mean to be ageing now, in the world’s oldest population?