Department of Religious Studies
Joseph Adler 

Links for Japanese Religions

General:

• Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
• Papers on Japanese Religion (Kokugakuin University)
• Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
• Japanese Mythology (brief text entries on nearly 300 terms, from The Encyclopedia Mythica)
• Map and basic facts
• Satellite view of Japan
• Japanese E-text collection

Shinto:

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• Shinto Online Network Association
• Glossary of Shinto Terms
• Essays on Matsuri (festivals)
• Meiji Shrine
• Yasukuni Shrine
• 2001 Controversy over Yasukuni Shrine (NY Times)
  • Yasukuni and textbook controversy
  • Koizumi visits shrine
  • Koreans protest
• Suitengu shrine (pictures)
• Shinto mounted archery ritual
• Sacred Places in Japan (see index for more)

Buddhism:

• Buddhist philosophy (a good introduction to basic Buddhist ideas and history)
• Zen Buddhism links (RELN 360)
• Buddhism links (RELN 260)

• Shin Dharma Net
• Jodo Shinshu (in French)
• Amida Sutra (illustrated)
• Jodo Shinshu Handbook for Laymen
• Japanese Buddhist Centers
• Renjo-ji (Shin Buddhist Temple, Himeji, Japan)
• Enryakuji (Mt. Hiei)
• The Millennium at Zojoji Temple
• Aum Shinrikyo website

New Religions:

• Essays on New Religions
• Tenrikyo website
• Tenri University
• Soka Gakkai International (Japan)
• Soka Gakkai International (USA)
• "A Sect's Political Rise Creates Uneasiness in Japan" (NY Times)

Art:

• Tokugawa Art Museum: excellent collection of Edo Period (1600-1868) arts
• Meiji period woodblock prints

Articles:

• Review of Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States
• "Specter of a Rearmed Japan Stirs Its Wartime Generation" (New York Times)
• Sumo Ban on Women (New York Times)
• "Still Wary of Outsiders, Japan Expects Immigration Boom" (New York Times)
• "Women Win a Battle, but Job Bias Still Rules Japan" (New York Times)
• "The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism" (Atlantic Monthly)
• New trends in Japanese education (Far Eastern Economic Review)
• Review of The Rape of Nanking
• Jews of Japan
• Short article on wa (harmony)

Sumo:

• Nihon Sumo Kyokai
• O-Sumo
• Sumo World (magazine)
• Sumo Web
• Sumo Web Pages

• Taiko Drumming

Japanese Newspapers (in English):

• Japan Times
• Daily Yomiuri
• Asahi Shimbun

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Edit date: 12/15/02