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Please Applaud. In Tokyo's shiny new sports center, a crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Peace, It's Wonderful | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...fuzzy world of Japan's new democracy it seemed like a Shinto nightmare. Two thousand hard-jawed Japanese, in jackboots and military khaki, clomped down the gangplank of the transport that had brought them from prison camps in Siberia to their home in Dai Nippon. They clenched fists, bawled the Internationale and the Song of the Kolkhoz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Return | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, earnestly cooperating in debunking the Shinto myth, presented convincing proof of their democratic leanings. At a palace celebration of the second anniversary of Japan's democratic constitution, they led the assembled 30,000 in three rousing banzais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...constitution looked fine on the statute books. But what did Minshushugi (the way of the democrats) really mean to a people long accustomed to Shinto (the way of the gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Conversion of a Village | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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