How to Improve the U.S. -Japan Security Alliance
(Archived document, may contain errors) 108 September 26, 1990 HOW TO IMPROVE THE U.S.-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE UMODUMON
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(Archived document, may contain errors) 108 September 26, 1990 HOW TO IMPROVE THE U.S.-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE UMODUMON
9 March 2021 (US / paperback) Japan’s rapid modernization in the late 19th century triggered an existential crisis over what to do about folk beliefs, including deeply rooted beliefs about the spirit world. After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the country embarked on a rapid project of western-influenced modernization. The scientific rationalism that was much in vogue in the West dismissed such beliefs as superstition. Two Japanese responses emerged – one that sought to ‘debunk’ folk beliefs as superstition and excise them from Japan’s new spirituality, a streamlined system of empe...