History, Politics, International Relations & Law

Challenging the ‘Big Lies’ of History: The Shōwa Restoration

Professor Brian Victoria of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, United Kingdom, argues that history in Japan was deliberately suppressed by the American occupation forces after 1945, who wanted a capitalist leader to serve as a fortress against Soviet communism in Asia.
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Attitudes to Death in Ancient Japan THINK Death in the Japanese
Cultural & Area Studies, Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Buddhism & Burial: Attitudes to Death in Ancient Japan (2/20)

In Part 2 of his serialised monograph, “Death in the Japanese Tradition”, Professor Stuart D. B. Picken looks at Japanese attitudes to death through the ages, from primal awakenings to Prehistoric perceptions.
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