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Cultural & Area Studies, History

The Death and Burial of Emperor Showa (19/20)

In the penultimate Part 19 of his “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph, Professor Stuart D. B. Picken explains why the events preceding Emperor Showa’s passing away, and the rituals thereafter, created wide-ranging debate in Japanese society.
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suicide in japan THINK IAFOR
Cultural & Area Studies, Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Suicide in Contemporary Japan (16/20)

In Part 16 of Professor Stuart D. B. Picken’s monograph “Death in the Japanese Tradition”, he examines case studies of the different types of suicide present in modern-day Japan, from group and pact suicide, to forced suicide.
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Kamikaze Japan THINK IAFOR
Cultural & Area Studies, History, Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Militarism and Suicide in Japan: Meiji to Showa (14/20)

From the 1932 “Three Human Torpedoes”, followed by a growing trend of group suicide, to the kamikaze suicide pilots of World War 2, Professor Stuart D. B. Picken examines the ways in which the militarist tradition of suicide has survived into Japan’s modern history.

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Seppuku-confucianism samurai THINK IAFOR
Cultural & Area Studies, Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism and the Neo-Samurai (13/20)

Professor Stuart D. B. Picken explains the ways in which Japan’s Confucian social structures of harmony, duty and loyalty relate to its history of loyalty-inspired suicide in Part 13 of his “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph.
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