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The Myotsuji temple sits in Aisai, a little known city in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi.
Located more than 9,000km (5,600 miles) from her home in Sri Lanka's Kadawatha district, it is the final resting place of Ratnayake Liyanage Wishma Sandamali.
Wishma died on 6 March 2021 at an immigration detention centre in Nagoya, Aichi's capital. She had been detained there for seven months after overstaying her student visa, and requesting refugee status.
"Even in our dreams, we see our sister," 30-year old Wayomi Ratnayake told the BBC. "She was only 33 when she died. She could have lived for many more years."
Wishma was the 18th foreigner to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007, according to media reports. The country has one of the lowest refugee acceptance rates in the world and her death has increased pressure on officials to reform how people held in such centres are treated.