Health Beliefs in Japanese Culture: B13Arnault, Denise SaintThe Nurse Practitioner
In this lesson, we will look at the Japanese beliefs and cultural influences that helped shape Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Japanese American life in...
Shinto is unique in that a person does not have to make a public profession of faith in order to be a member of the religion. When a child is born in Japan, a local Shinto shrine adds the child’s name to the membership list and declares the child as “family.” If the person eve...
Though Shinto is still embedded in Japanese culture, there is no danger of history repeating itself because Japan’s postwar constitution prohibits it from forming a military. In its place, the Japan Self-Defense Forces was created, solely for self defense in case of attack by other countries....
were all creations of the urban culture. Japanese cities equaled or surpassed their European counterparts in infrastructure and public amenities, but Japanese urbanites lacked a political voice commensurate with their economic and cultural capital. Tokugawa social patterns and institutions laid the foundat...
Describing religion in Japanese culture is complex: even as most Japanese people practice Shintōism and Buddhism, most people see themselves as secular. This characteristic is because Shintōism and Buddhism are philosophies and ways of being; describing them as religion is like saying a Western perso...
Chinese Confucianism, and Japanese Ikigai have cultural mores that provide for the role of aging in their societies (Moddy & Sasser, 2015, p. 36).The common thread for citizens in America is to achieve a better life at all stages. Thus, from cultural context the words are in sync with ...
Such groups grew in strength during the turmoil of World War II. On 19 August 1945 an uprising occurred in which Vietnamese nationalists overthrew the Japanese administration then controlling Vietnam. On 2 September 1945 Ho Chi Minh officially established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The ...
Though later Japan banned foreign imports for centuries, in the late 6th century C.E., imported foreign ideas still had a profound impact on Japanese culture. This was achieved by Prince Shotoku, the son of a previous Japanese emperor who was crown prince and regent for his ...
The Role Of Religion In Medieval Japan Firstly, the traditions within Shintoism were important to help the Japanese people to connect with their ancestors and the nature around them. The word ‘Shinto’ itself means way of the gods. It is as old as the Japanese culture and was the only rel...