News Japan Religion: Five Unmissable Films at Japan Cuts 2019
and that not even religion can fill that void, something that Yura learns the hardest way possible. Kamagasaki is an old slum in Osaka, Japan, where poverty runs rampant and crime lords seem to ...
News Japan Religion: Government restrictions on religion increasing worldwide, according to new Pew report
New York • Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe’s democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries that was released Monday.
News Japan Religion: Government restrictions on religion increasing worldwide
Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many ... The lowest levels of restriction were in South Africa, Japan, the Philippines, Brazil and South Korea. ...
News Japan Religion: School for missionary children in Japan investigating allegations of past abuse
(RNS) — The Christian Academy in Japan, a suburban Tokyo school founded ... abuse by #MeToo and similar movements, Foxwell told Religion News Service. Some of the stories she heard were ...
News Japan Religion: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito treats Donald and Melania Trump to full-course French dinner and live orchestra music
US and Japan won’t find a deal by Monday ... State guests are usually served a French dinner but the palace also caters to religion, for example offering a halal dinner to Muslim guests. Vegetables ...
News Japan Religion: China deploys Confucius in bid to boost religion controls
Participants pledged to “cultivate the Chinese cultural character of our nation’s religions so that our nation’s religions are rooted in the fertile soil of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and ...
News Japan Religion: Japanese court denies request to remove Korean names from Yasukuni Shrine
A Japanese court has denied a request by 27 Korean people to remove the names of their family members from the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The shrine honors Japan's war dead, including Class A war criminals.
News Japan Religion: Trump watches sumo, but it's not just a sport in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — President Donald Trump watched sumo wrestling with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday, becoming the first American leader to do so. Trump, who is on a four-day state visit to Japan, presented a special U.S.-made trophy to the winner.
News Japan Religion: Render Japanese Names in the Right Order
Matthew Foster Merrick, N.Y. The writer is the son of American missionaries to Japan, and a professor of religious studies at Molloy College. ...
News Japan Religion: Cute puppies and octopus sex: A Japanese art exhibition reveals our fascination with animals
which is perhaps the easiest entree for visitors who aren’t steeped in Japanese religions or culture. Poets had a regular storehouse of animal tropes to suggest a mood, analogize some aspect of human ...
News Japan Religion: Embracing the Japan of the past through music with Meitei
Growing up with such a rustic lifestyle and observing tradition and religion isn’t something that necessarily should be enforced, but it’s something that until recently had been the norm for vast ...
News Japan Religion: Delving into politics and religion
A month before his 80th birthday, Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki moves briskly around the stage of Victoria Theatre, fixing lights and adjusting actor positions. "I'm not one of those directors who ...
News Japan Religion: Japan uses turtle divination for emperor enthronement rites
The government-funded Shinto ritual is a divisive one that opponents say could violate Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. Naruhito's main succession ceremony will be held in ...
News Japan Religion: Japan's emperor reports to Shinto gods week after succession
The harvest rite is funded by the government, which some experts say could violate the constitutional separation of state and religion. The 59-year-old new emperor is a historian who studied at Oxford ...
