Last two times we explored the history of Yasukuni shrine from its establishment to the modern day. Today we are going to take a peek at the belief system that was cultivated by the Yasukuni Shrine establishment, the Japanese Army and the The National/Imperial Government.

To Dream of Dreams (Book) David M. O'Brien and Yasuo Ōgoshi

Yasukuni Shrine (Book) Dr. Akiko Takenaka

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

https://escholarship.org/content/qt7zb9f29b/qt7zb9f29b.pdf?t=n4oxsc

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Music Credits:

New Intro: http://shw.in/sozai/japan.php Tsuzdumi Japan 3

Closing: Escaping_like_Indiana_Jones by Komiku

In Credible Discourse Shorts!

These are little fun Fact sized tid-bit mini-sodes.

Today we deal with the economic production and consequences of war in the Pacific. We will see how the war time effort did not and could not have helped the Japanese economy and how the best for the prosperity of people throughout the Japanese Empire was peace.

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https://incrediblediscourse.com/economic-cost-of-war-japan-20th-century-japan/

The post war period is the first time that the Japanese government was forced to separate from religion, not for selfless reasons but according to its own laws and to preserve the existence of the Japanese State. Today we are going to explore how Yasukuni and its branches navigated the post war separation of State and Religion. We are going to look at some of the Legal cases that set precedent and how the vast majority of the government has tried to ignore those rulings.

Further Reading:

To Dream of Dreams (Book) David M. O'Brien and Yasuo Ōgoshi

Yasukuni Shrine (Book) Dr. Akiko Takenaka

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine

https://escholarship.org/content/qt7zb9f29b/qt7zb9f29b.pdf?t=n4oxsc

In Credible Discourse Website

Music Credits:

New Intro: http://shw.in/sozai/japan.php Tsuzdumi Japan 3

Closing: Escaping_like_Indiana_Jones by Komiku

What is Yasukuni? Simply put it is a shrine dedicated to peace and the soldiers of Japan. It’s name translates to Peaceful Land Shrine (Yasukuni Jinja) and despite the name it is the most controversial Shinto Shrine there is.

   This is because is has continuously been at the center of post war / post Japanese colonization politics.

What is Shinto?

What is Shinto?

The Native religion of Japan? The Native traditions of Japan?

Shinto is an amalgamation of traditions that were brought into and developed in the Japanese archipelago and fermented there along the strong flavoring of Buddhism, the needs of the Imperial House and the convenience of the ruling governments.

The Tengu, there are few folk creatures as iconic in Japan as the Tengu. Seen throughout Art, film, comics and Television the Tengu is as characteristic to Japan as Leprechauns are to Ireland.

But I want to take a deeper look into what Tengu are and where they came from?

Tengu are creatures of folklore and that means what they are is fluid and decentralized, always open to the particularities of each instance of them. But we have to start somewhere so we will be focusing on two points in time. The earliest forms on Tengu that appear in the Late Heian Period and Early Kamakura period and their use in late 19th early 20th century Kokugaku rhetoric.

Today, we’re doing it all. History, Buddhism, Japanese Nationalism and at the center of it all, Tengu the bird people of Japan.

Welcome to Season 2 of In Credible Discourse!

Today we are going to be tackling the following topics:

1) Intellectual Discourse in the Early Medieval Period.

2) Jianzhen in Japan

Today we're going to be talking about Archaeology, economics, history, Japan and Money. At the heart of today's topic is economics and the kinds of money that have been made possible by the division of labor in the Japanese islands throughout time.

When it comes to exploring the economies of the Japanese islands there are few better ways to begin than with the Shoen estate (荘園) systems. The estate systems lasted for roughly 800 years and represented the primary ways in which the Yamato court touched the lives of people throughout the islands. Beginning in the 8th century the history of Shoen would come to become the largest legally recognized producers of wealth in Japan as well as the primary target of wealth redistribution.

The relationship that Economics has with Archaeology and the fields of historical inquiry is a strained one. In the halls of Academia most university departments see no strong connection between economics and the study of the past. As an extension of this, in the general world view of most people there is no substantial relationship between archaeology and economics because most people don’t understand either one of them. This has created numerous problems within academia and more so with how people understand the past.