Shinto

The author Friedrich Nietzsche in his text (“The Madman”, 1882) used a narrative to prove a point. To be more specific he wanted to show or demonstrate to people how bad was the status of religion and of faith in Europe around his time (1882-1887) the time when he was publishing “The Gay Science”. The story started with a man who is described as a “madman”. The madman begins by entering a marketplace and starts to shout loudly “I seek God! I seek God!” He then encounters a group of people in the…

Video games have been entertaining our youth for decades. The games have only gotten better, and the demand for them higher as the years have gone by. Starting from arcade games like PONG, to modern games like Skyrim, video games have evolved greatly over time. One of the most influential game developers of our time is Shigeru Miyamoto, a native of Japan who has been making iconic video game franchises through Nintendo since the 1970’s. Not only has he influenced Japanese video game culture, but…

codes, landholding systems, as well as peasant armies in a very similar fashion to China’s. In a similar fashion, religion also became a heavy influence on culture in Japan. Previously, before the arrival of Buddhism, the local religion was known as “Shinto”. Eventually, Buddhism became another widespread religion throughout all of East Asia, and the Japanese people started to value it more. They brought aspects of both religions together around the ninth century. As time went on, there was a…

of a child. There are rituals for safe passage of the baby into the world from the mother’s wombs, delivery rituals and during pregnancy rituals. After the birth, communities have rituals for boys and girls. One is the January 15 ritual called the Shinto festival which is for young people turning twenty. The ritual of communities is for boys entering novice monkhood is the most important. Marriage rituals are also performed to bless the couple and officiated by a layman. Death is one of the…

organized religion, but rather is a worldview that underlies a group's beliefs about the universe and people (“Animism”). However, some animist practices can be found in expressions in religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Neopaganism, and Shinto (“Animism”). Animism also has some “overlapping expressions in Shamanism when a shaman attempts to contact a soul from the soil, rain, or sun” (“Animism”). The description of animism today was created by Sit Edward Tyler (“Animism”). He defined…

Although coming-of-age and social class struggle are significant adversities faced by Shinji and Hatsue, there is yet a greater conflict in Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves. In writing about the value of cultural purity, and, thus, emphasizing traditional Japanese customs, Mishima constructs a secondary conflict within his narrative regarding the opposition between tradition and modernity, which despite its peripheral role in Mishima’s novel, illuminates important aspects of his writing,…

1. Drivers of globalization Looking at Japan and see how efficiently they use globalization in their favor to take a great position in this world, you have to see what were the drivers of globalization who made this happen. This chapter consists of what are the drivers of globalization. And what were the influences the declining of barriers had for Japan and it also consist of technology changes a big factor was in this process. Like many other countries decided Japan also to decline its…

The Downfall of the once Great Samurai Samurai’s have a long, rich history and what it meant to be a Samurai is honor, valor, loyalty. You were also wealthy and were one of the elites of Japan’s class system. Although samurais were once known as “Great”, the samurai’s downfall was inevitable because they want to keep the same traditions not trying modernize. During the eighth century, the Heian Period, around the year 800 to 1200, Samurai originally was referred to household…

Japan. Land of mystery, intrigue, tradition, technology, and oneness within the culture. A unique hybrid society of traditional animism and Buddhism, a theme of combining outside structures with national ideas that appears throughout its history, the Japanese culture has little standing in its way of social progress as compared to the thick stew of conservative religion that is pervasive in the United States. Combined with its beautiful vistas, clean cities, and incredibly low crime rate, Japan…

Secularity in France targets the public sphere, the treatment of religious symbolism in French law raises issues of how the maintenance of secularity should go about in a nation, forcibly removing ‘visible religion’ from the public sphere, implies a lack of pluralism in a nation, laïcité then could be considered relatively undemocratic. What exactly was meant by ‘ostentatious’ is a matter of much debate, to what extent must a symbol of religious affiliation be ‘ostentatious’. This year, a 15…