Is it possible to interpret the Asia-Pacific War as a (Shinto-Buddhist) holy war (seisen) in the sense that is frequently applied to military operations by Christians and Muslims?
James Turner Johnson states that there are three different standards that must …
Japan was at war once more by 1904, doing something that would have seemed impossible only a decade earlier. The Imperial soldiers not only defeated the Russians handily, but they also managed to fight a European power fairly. Japan had …
The ideology that eventually became known as “Japanism” (Nihonshugi). The Korean peninsula sparked a conflict between China and Japan in 1894. The two nations went into a 50-year era of intermittent warfare, the effects of which are still visible today. …
Even if it is still prohibited in some places, the topic of violence within Buddhist tradition has only just come to the attention of some academics. There is an irony in the rise of “religions of love and mercy,” as …
The Dogon cosmology has certain important characteristics with the Buddhist cosmology and with similar terms and ideas from ancient Egyptian cosmology, which allow us to draw good analogies between the two systems. The definitions of terms inside the system are …
The utilization of numbers has considerable importance in harmonizing the customs of several civilizations, including both the repetition of particular pivotal numbers and the distinct meaning attributed to those numbers. Certain factors, such as the duration of a year, were …