Chapter 1 – Japanese Society and Its Traditional Faith- Animism.

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Chapter 1 – Japanese Society and Its Traditional Faith- Animism

Sun Goddess - Amaterasu Omikami

The Grand Shrine of Ise – Ise Jingu

Jibo-Kannon An image of the Kannon bodhisattva at Kinshoji-Temple in Chichibu, Eastern Japan – Symbolizing maternal love, mercy and grace.

Omiyamairi – Start of Life: People go to a shrine when a baby is born.

Shichi-go-san: Seven-, Five-, and Three- year-old children are taken to a shrine to celebrate their growth and pray for their future well- being.

Chitose-Ame: After the Shichi- go-san ceremony, children receive long red and white candy sticks called chitose- ame. The candy symbolizes a long life filled with happiness.

A Christian-style Wedding: It is quite common in Japan that non- religious couple have their marriage ceremonies at Christian churches.

A Christian-style Wedding

People enjoy Christmas celebrations

Funerals of most Japanese people are conducted according to Buddhist rites

Chapter 2 – From Meiji Restoration to the Defeat in the World War II 1. Japan has adopted Western Modern Law into Its Legal System 2. Formation of religious law (1) The Emperor became deified –Shinto came to be regarded as the national religion of Japan from the 19 th Century (2) Emphasis on the superiority of Shinto to any other religion (3) Suppression against other religion than Shinto

Mutsuhito - Emperor Meiji

Hirohito - Emperor Showa

Chapter 3 – From the Defeat in the World War II to the Present 1. Introduction of the new constitution and freedom of religion (1) Turmoil of the legislative body

Emperor Showa and General MacArthur

Chapter 3 1.(2) Newly organized religions and their distorted views - Aum-Shinrikyo and its sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1996

Shoko Asahara – leader of the Aum

Chapter 4 – The Constitution and Religion: Introduction of 12 postwar leading cases in Japan - Please refer to the separate notes

Chapter 5 – What worries lawyers? Causes of our headache A case study in relation to the ultra orthodox Jewish practices in a prison in Japan : - MUST and MUST NOT of the Jewish People

Chapter 6 – Hidden Christians 1.Survival from the religious persecution - Their two- hundred- years secret belief 2.Tragedy in Nagasaki

Twenty-Six Martyrs

Oura Catholic Church –Nagasaki Established 1865, officially known as "Oura Catholic Church, The Church of 26 Martyrs." Built by the French priest Bernard Petitjean of Fier to dedicate prayers to the 26 saints martyred on Nishizaka hill.

Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bomb blast in Nagasaki

Oe Cathedral in Amakusa

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