Religion and the State: The Influence of the Tokugawa on Religious Life, Thought, and Institutions

This paper describes the influence of the Tokugawa government on religious life in Japan. It focuses on the religious traditions of Buddhism, Shintoism, and Neo-Confucianism and how the state used these religions to their advantage. The Tokugawa had strict control over all aspects of Japanese life including religion and this paper explores that

Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life\u27s greatest lesson

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life\u27s greatest lesson. New York: Bantam, 1997

Koreański szamanizm – religia pojednania i współistnienia

This article is to explain the basic rules of Korean shamanism. First the religious views of Koreans are presented. The importance of harmony in the lives of Koreans is highlighted. It is stressed that the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism do not exclude one another, do not erect barriers and they promote mutual tolerance and are intertwined in Korea. Next, the role of Korean shamanism in helping common people solve their problems are discussed. Korean shamanism is one of the best examples of unorganized religions and possesses features typical of such religions. Shamanism has a well-formulated system of beliefs as well as behaviours and conduct but its practices and its canons are not well-organized. Consequently, shamanism plays a latent function in society similarly as systems of values, morals, manners and emotions. The author also describes the shamanic ritual called gut. Finally, the contemporary views on and approaches to Korean shamanism are touched upon.This article is to explain the basic rules of Korean shamanism. First the religious views of Koreans are presented. The importance of harmony in the lives of Koreans is highlighted. It is stressed that the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism do not exclude one another, do not erect barriers and they promote mutual tolerance and are intertwined in Korea. Next, the role of Korean shamanism in helping common people solve their problems are discussed. Korean shamanism is one of the best examples of unorganized religions and possesses features typical of such religions. Shamanism has a well-formulated system of beliefs as well as behaviours and conduct but its practices and its canons are not well-organized. Consequently, shamanism plays a latent function in society similarly as systems of values, morals, manners and emotions. The author also describes the shamanic ritual called gut. Finally, the contemporary views on and approaches to Korean shamanism are touched upon

Confuciansim and Korean Dramas: How Cultural and Social Proximity, Hybridization of Modernity and Tradition, and Dissimilar Confucian Trajectories Affect Importation Rates of Korean Broadcasting Programs between Japan and China

On April 3, 2004, five thousand Japanese citizens arrived at Haneda, Tokyo Airport to meet famous Korean actor Bae Yong Joon: the male love interest in the Korean drama Winter Sonata (Lee 12). Commonly referred to as Yon-sama (roughly translated to “Prince Yon”), Bae Yong Joon quickly amassed a fanbase of love-struck, middle-aged Japanese women who fell in love with his character. Never before had the relationship between Japan and South Korea been as amicable as it had when Bae made his debut. Not even the 2002 jointly hosted World Cup had succeeded in easing tensions between the two neighboring countries

Creativity in firms : the oriental approach

Treball Final de Grau en Administració d'Empreses. Codi: AE1049. Curs: 2015/2016Everybody talks about creativity, we know it is a personality trait and that it seems to be what companies look for the most, yet what it entails and how it emerges or how culture sculpts it is still unknown to the majority of us. Regardless of the sector or industry, innovation is needed to be flexible and survive. However, creative industries are particularly bounded to look for uncommon projects and procedures. In light of the upraising demand for new products and competitive performance we come across different methods to promote creativity, criteria to evaluate and monitor it, workplaces “atmosphere” and so on. In this project we have proposed focusing on a particular creativity approach which is the Oriental one, to be more exact the East Asian one whose representative is going to be Japan. The main aim of the project will be analyzing Japanese´s current system and way of proceeding in every organization according to their pillars. To do so we will set a theoretical framework first to know what to pay attention to in the Japanese approach, and then we will dig into the Japanese history, economic history, their most popular religions, educational system, ethics, paradigms, safety and the Yakuza band, the company culture and its basic principles, relationships, etiquette, structure, hierarchy, philosophy, and methodology (which englobes three now internationally known models) to argument how they deal with creativity. Lastly, we will display the conclusions drawn from this project besides the limitations in this case-study and potential improvement proposals

Post Disaster Environment Management Practices (Emp) On Energy Conservation (A Case Study Of Japan Stay Sakura Hotel, Tokyo)

Amalan Pengurusan Persekitaran telah menjadi satu amalan penting dalam organisasi hari ini. Kebanyakan organisasi memulakan amalan ini untuk menjimatkan kos, meningkatkan reputasi, atas kehendak kerajaan and sebagainya. EMP has become an important practice in organizations today. More organization start to practice to save cost, improve reputation, required by government and so on

The Poetic Dimension of Everyday Aesthetic Appreciation. Perspectives from East-Asian Cultures

As Yuriko Saito, one of the main exponents of everyday aesthetics holds, East-Asian cultures have long established a deep link between artistic practices and everyday life, transforming apparently mundane practices such as having a cup o ftea with cakes into a highly ritualized form of art (cha-no-yu) and allowing us to enjoy the fleeting moment. The tea ceremony example is grounded, as this paper aims at showing, on a whole East-Asian worldview (as exemplfieied in Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism philosophies) whereby aesthetic appreciation is deeply pervaded by a poetic feeling, mainly consisting in the interactive harmony or attunement established with the particular circumstances of one’s own life due precisely to its fleeting and evanescent nature. To accomplish this, savouring and perceiving the uniqueness ingrained in every single human experience, the adequate attitude is the poetic one, due to its holistic and non-discriminative nature. Having as its focus everyday life, or simply put, life as such in its specificity, traditional artistic practices in East-Asia as the arts of the brush, garden design or utilitarian crafts such as pottery, become means of revealing what, due to its closeness, lies hidden in ordinary experience. Utilitarian arts are, in this sense, a priviledged way of conveying this end due precisely to its practical link with ordinary existence, preventing the eventual arousal of a purely formal and detached apprehension. The only coherent way to develop this awareness of the extraordinary in the ordinary, to use Leddy’s expression, is through the main feature of all poetic qualities: indirect allusion and subdued reference so that what is close at hand may shine in a different light. Particularly, in association with Japanese Zen Buddhism, where the rootedness of aesthetics in the ordinary is stronger, it has frequently adopted the form of restraint, contention, reserve, or, as Saito puts it, “insufficiency”. This paper aims at showing with the help of a few examples how this difuse poetic attitude, so prevalent in Traditional East-Asian contexts, is required not only in standardized art practices, but also in a wider aesthetic level of awareness of our ordinary experiences. In order to justify these claims, it will refer first to the ideal of harmony or poetic resonance in Chinese aesthetics and then it will refer to some concrete Japanese aesthetic categories inspired by Zen Buddhism, such as mono-no-aware, sabi, wabi, or yugen