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First established in the 17th century, Yakuza works towards establishing power and dominance over Japanese society, creating footholds for themselves in the stock market, real estate development and corporate management. The first indication of Yakuza activity shows that they emerged during

Firstly, the traditions within Shintoism were important to help the Japanese people to connect with their ancestors and the nature around them. The word ‘Shinto’ itself means way of the gods. It is as old as the Japanese culture and was the only religion in Japan until the 6th century. According to the Shinto religion, there exists a basic life force called kami. Kami are close to human beings and respond to human prayers. They can influence the course of natural forces, and human events. Shinto tradition says that there are eight million kami in Japan. Due to their deep respect and love for nature and Japan itself, many shrines were set up in places of natural beauty. Followers went to pray here to receive good fortune and samurai would often go to the shrines to pray for victory before and after battle. Shinto’s traditions involved having a clean lifestyle. They washed and bathed everyday which made most of japan a fresh

In the media, there were respectable figures who spoke out against the existence of the massacre. Chang gives many examples of political figures who spread the idea that the Nanking massacre was a falsified event. In 1988, minister of education and prefectural Kempeitai director, told reporters at the notorious Yasukuni shrine, where the lives of the cruellest war criminals are celebrated, that “there was no intention of aggression” in China. Instead, he claimed that the “white race made Asia into a colony, but only Japan is blamed”. Later, after facing heated backlash in Asia, he changed his argument, explaining he “didn’t say Japan

Since Japan's earliest days, Shinto has been the code of honor and action for the Japanese. It is also a polytheistic religion, they believe there is a God for everything.(brittanica)

For week 7 I decided that I would do my assignment on Shinto, since taking this class and reading about Shinto it started to interest me, especially now that I can look back and think about what I saw when I was in Japan and wondered what the religion was that they were practicing. Shinto’s meaning is “way of the gods”, this is one of the oldest religions in Japan, which began during the period of the Yayoi culture (c. 300 BCE - 300 CE). The faith has neither a founder or prophets and there is no major text which outlines its principal beliefs. Shinto's key concepts of purity, harmony, family respect, and subordination of the individual before the group have become parts of the Japanese character whether the individual claims a religious affiliation

This is completely different from US religious beliefs in many ways. For one, all the religions practiced in the United States worship a specific god or gods. Another thing that’s completely different in Japan than in the US is that they are more accepting of different religions. The other religion that is widely practiced in Japan is Buddhism. Brought over by missionaries in 552 AD and emphasizes simplicity to beauty, devotion to study and severe self-discipline. All the concepts of both of these religions are not concepts that American religions emphasize. Religion is huge for the Japanese and in most houses Shintoism and Buddhism are both practiced and shrines are usually done of both religions. There are many other cultural customs in Japan that are different from those in the US.

This text also shows the extreme lengths that the Japanese government went to in order to destroy perceived outward influence especially in the realm of religion. This text clearly shows the tension between government and religion, and truly expresses the happenings of 17th century Japan through the lens of a human being. While our textbook teaches of the actual events which transpired during the timeline of this novel, the novel is far more real and powerful because it presents the events through the lens of human

The above public opinion should be more accurately understood in the context of Japan's deal over historical issues. Japan's right-wing forces have for decades kept making attempts to deny the order established after the Second World War, such as visiting the notorious Yasukuni Shrine and distorting history books. A few months ago, Japan revised a school text book which distorted the history of Japanese atrocities in China and revised some references to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.

result, Tendai came to be the most scholarly of the sects and Hieizan the seat of Japanese

Have you actually wondered what Yasukuni Shrine is really about? Do you wonder if the biased Chinese and American views on Yasukuni actually defy it? Well look no further! The Yasukuni Shrine’s purpose is to honor those who died in Japan’s Wars, not to start conflict. Countries like China, and South Korea criticize Japanese Politician’s Visits to Yasukuni because they fell victim to Japan’s Aggressive Military Expansion. The Chinese Criticize Yasukuni because they have no knowledge on the truth of the shrine and only think it’s for war. So those Chinese Communist imbeciles can go back and cry to their pathetic Father Karl Marx, because Mao Zedong killed more people than

The first step of the Japanese plan for world domination, the effects of this war are still felt today. Japanese ties with China and other Asian countries are still strained due to the Japanese invasion of these countries and atrocities Japanese while occupying their neighbors. It is important for us, half the globe away, to understand this conflict, and to gain a better understanding of how this event shaped the politics of the region

First, let’s talk about Ise Jingu situated in Japan. It is the largest Shinto shrine located in the city of Ise. Millions of people make their pilgrimage to this shrine for either tourism or religious purposes. It holds a lot of both spiritual and historical value of Japan. Spiritually as the shrine was made in light of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, and the traditional progenitor of the imperial Japanese family, later another God Toyaku Okami being another sacred being, being worshipped. (Pletcher) The architectural design of the shrine consists of many rows of buildings but the most distinct are two large huts, being the inner (Naiku) and outer shrine (Geku). (Pletcher) Naiku was first constructed, which had the Goddess of Amaterasu, later Geku with the intention of worshipping Toyaku Okami, the god of food and benevolence. (Pletcher) The shrine is surrounded by a thick forest, which the buildings were made from. Using the essence of nature, or “ke”, the priests and priestesses used the surrounding trees as the buildings blocks of the shrine, as the trees had much devotion and spirituality of the Japanese people.

Although much research has taken place on the involvement of Japan in WWII, only limited research has been conducted into the connection between Japan and the Jewish people who were being prosecuted at the time. This paper aims to produce further acknowledgement and understanding of the history of the Jewish people in Japan, as well as give a different perspective on Japanese views and ideas of the period and strive to correct any misconceptions that may be strongly held since Japan’s defeat in 1945. Throughout Japan’s history, foreigners have been regarded with alternating reverence and contempt, as benevolent gods and threatening demons (Goodman and Miyazawa, 1995). So substantial was this ambivalence that it evolved into a major feature of Japanese religion, whose deities are often interpreted as ‘visitors from afar’ (Goodman and Miyazawa, 1995). These deities would be waited upon until they could give their blessings to the Japanese people, and would then be ushered away. Japanese attitudes towards the Jews and foreigners in general have always followed this basic pattern, even in the present day. Foreigners are seen as visitors to be admired and revered or criticized and expelled depending on the fluctuating needs of Japan (Goodman and Miyazawa, 1995).

Japan is an unique oriental country in many aspects, especially in politics and economy, both western practices and traditional nationalism are coexisted in this country. The period 1890-1940 was just followed the Meiji restoration, and was typical in the history of Japan, at that time, Japan was on the way from a feudal country to a capitalistic country, called modernization. Many western practices were being more and more adopted, however, at the same time, traditional rules still had strong influences in Japan. Under this background, this report will discuss the Japanese cultural factors during 1890-1940 that influenced the disclosure

Japanese shrine is different from the other religion as the Christianity, it is more opened space, not strictly as the divine space, but as the place community come together for the event. I like this opened space makes me familiar to all of us, thus we go this shrine not the holy events, but just as the Japanese tradition.