Following the disastrous results of recent elections in Japan, which saw a large majority for a nationalistic, pro-nuclear LDP, there have been few brave enough to speak out against the direction the country is taking. The right-wing agenda of government … Read the rest
Category: Politics (Page 5 of 5)
An article in the Bangkok Post by Phil Cunningham shows the dilemma that Shinto faces, as well as Japan as a whole, by fcussing on two influential figures – finance minister Taro Aso and celebrated anime maker, Hayao Miyazaki.
Taro … Read the rest
That Yasukuni is a political rather than a religious issue is all too apparent from the top news in today’s Japan Times where the leading headline screams….
Abe will not visit Yasukuni shrine on Aug 15
POLITICS AUG. 02, 2013 … Read the rest
The unfortunate alliance of Shinto with right-wing nationalism is nowhere more evident than in the cult of Yasukuni Shrine, established in the nineteenth century to honour those who died on behalf of the emperor. Defenders of the shrine like … Read the rest
Today is August 15, which is the day of Japan’s surrender in WW2. It is also the day that in recent years government ministers have visited Yasukuni to pay respects to the war dead (including 14 Class A war criminals … Read the rest
Reports have reached us from Shanghai that someone sympathetic to Green Shinto has been unable to log into the site over several successive days. Apparently websites are jammed with no official reason why, so this is pure speculation, but it … Read the rest
In The Kami Way (1962), Sokyo Ono writes as follows:
“The world of Shinto is not an isolated one. It is an all-inclusive one. It includes all things organic and inorganic. All nature – man, animals, mountains, rivers, herbs and … Read the rest