This is part 22 of a series following a three-month journey the length of Japan, beginning in northern Hokkaido and finishing in the south of Kyushu. This extract from a forthcoming book concerns Fukuoka, which in the form of Hakata … Read the rest
Category: Nationalism (Page 1 of 8)
This is an extract from a forthcoming book about travel by train the length of Japan. (For Part One click here.) In 1863, after Japan agreed to open up to the West, Emperor Komei in a formal procession to … Read the rest
LECTURE: Mullins on Yasukuni Fundamentalism (Tohoku Univ.)
by Orion Klautau
The Department of Global Japanese Studies at Tohoku University would like to invite you to the following lecture:
Mark R. Mullins (University of Auckland)
“Imperialist Secularization and the Politics of Religious … Read the rest
Ino Okifu
It was after speculating about Jofuku and Jimmu that I was startled to find, courtesy of Wikipedia, that I was by no means the first to think that their stories may have overlapped. It turns out that a … Read the rest
The following is excerpted with permission from a longer blog post by Edward J. Taylor which details the arduous access to the shrine ruins of Shonan Jinja and can be read here. (Wikipedia states that “the historical site remains … Read the rest
The following is the introductory section of a paper by distinguished scholar Klaus Antoni first published in Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 47, 1988: 123-136. The article entitled “Yasukuni-Jinja and Folk Religion: The Problem of Vengeful Spirits” can be read … Read the rest
Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo remains a highly disputed space because of its symbolic role. This is seen most clearly in the adjacent museum, which takes a one-sided view of Japan’s role in WW2. The use of the shrine for nationalist … Read the rest