Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PERKINS Kyoto, Japan...
Japanese religions indicate the national characteristics of "intuitiveness, harmony with nature, and introversion," the professor explained. He described Shinto, one of the dominant religions of Japan, as a conservative and traditional cult in which "nature and man are close...
...comparison, Japanese Buddhism sees no need for a God and is "practical and psychological." Its main concern, to Kishimoto, is "why humans have so many unnecessary worries." He said it is now the dominant power among religions in Japan...
Although the introduction of Christianity in Japan is misinterpreted as a Western intervention to "Westernize the East," Kishimoto asserted, "it is modernizing the East and greatly influencing Japanese social life." Christian monogamy, equality, and humility are taught and accepted in his country, the professor concluded, but there is no Christian influence upon Japanese concepts of deity...
Marriage Revealed. Mitsue Tojo, 40, who has lived in seclusion since her father, Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was hanged as a war criminal in 1948; and General Shigeru Sugiyama, 56, chief of staff of Japan's Defense Agency; she for the first time, he for the second...