Japanese writer and poet (1937–2022)
 was a Japanese writer and poet. He was best known for his memoirs "Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician", published in 1993. The book was based on his diaries during a period in which he worked as a mortician in the 1970s, a profession which is traditionally regarded as a taboo in Japan due to their perception of death. In 2008 his memoirs were adapted into a successful Academy Award-winning feature film, "Departures," by filmmaker Yōjirō Takita.
Aoki died on 6 August 2022, at the age of 85.
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