Virtual crypt offers tomb with a view

Call it a tale from the e-crypt or a tomb with a view.

But Teruo and Miyoko Oba say there is nothing eerie about their new family grave site, equipped with a mobile phone bar code to offer connectivity long after their own bells have tolled.

Their family plot near the Japan Alps boasts a high-tech, "QR" black-and-white square, linking the Oba's pictures and history to phone-carrying visitors who can enter virtually to pay their respects.