Controversy seems to be erupting about the state funeral of former prime ministers, although not on the scale of 'dividing the country in two'.

I think the debate itself is a good thing, but I don't understand the the cost of state funerals.

"Cabinet approves expenditure of about 250 million yen for former Prime Minister Abe's 'state funeral'."

"Really, It's too cheap isn't it?" I thought.

A rich man's house, about the price of one.

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Because people at state guest level are coming to the country in large numbers.

Let's assume that 100 state guests arrive, and that 10 people are attached to guard them, and that the overheads per person are 500,000 yen per person per day, roughly, 5 million x 100 people = 5 billion yen. Of course, if they stay for two or three days, that's another 20 billion yen.

This time, the number of expected participants is announced to be 6,000.

Naturally, traffic and operational restrictions will be imposed, so local police officers will have to be mobilised and the prestige of the Japanese police force will be put on the line to provide security for dignitaries.

If a key figure is assassinated in the country, there is even a risk of a breakdown of diplomatic relations.

If you put all these together, I think it will easily break the 50 billion mark.

If. If I were to hold my own funeral for 6,000 people, I would need 10,000 yen per person, or 60,000,000 yen, for dinner, entertainment and travel costs.

Even this me.

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I am not going to quibble about 'amounts of money'.

However, as an engineer who is in charge of a serial column with figures, I would like to see an overview (items) of the "250 million yen" quotation at the earliest opportunity.

And then I wrote this far and found the phrase 'This does not include the cost of police personnel to guard the area'.

That would be.

We will now amend our request to "Disclosure of the estimate with security cos.