For this last article I will discuss how Gordon Matthews tries to get a understanding on the Japanese society through life and death. Gordon’s theory is that reincarnation is linked to the Japanese societies views on heaven and hell. He believes that the idea of being judged after death is connected to reincarnation based on the interviews he has with the locals. He approaches this theory by using economic anthropology. In the article he explains that the community had different opinions about life after death and reincarnation. When he speaks to some of the adults in the Japanese community they told him that people are reincarnated or fine peace in the afterlife. Matthews explains that there is a major difference between the afterlife and
