Japan

This source names Japan directly: "among and studied the Ainu people of Japan for decades, and this book, published posthumously by Columbia University Press after being edited from his research notes, documents Ainu religious belief..."

This source names Japan directly: "its origin with Usui Mikao in 1920s Japan through its transformation and spread across North America and the wider Pacific over the twentieth century."

This source names Japan directly: "was actually practiced in contemporary Japan at the time of his fieldwork, examining household altars, memorial rites and the living relationship between families and their dead."

This source names Japan directly: "Ernest Mason Satow's Ancient Japanese Rituals, originally published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1879 and available today through the Internet Sacred Text Archive, is an..."

This source names Japan directly: "one of the three imperial regalia of Japan."

This source names Japan directly: "1995 membership figure (about 9,000 in Japan, as many as 40,000 worldwide) at the time of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and a 2004 estimate of 1,500 to 2,000 for its successor Aleph."

This source names Japan directly: "missions from as far as Persia, Japan, the Dutch Republic and France, alongside a royal court that patronized Theravada Buddhist temple building on a scale matched by few other capitals of the period."

This source names Japan directly: "It belongs to the Mahayana traditions of China, Korea and Japan, which keep the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death as three separate commemorations."

Practiced alongside Shinto since its sixth century introduction from the Asian mainland.

This source names Japan directly: "Wikipedia's article on Buddhism in Japan, community-edited."

This source names Japan directly: "Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Inazo Nitobe's 1900 book from Leeds and Biddle, written in English by a Japanese Quaker convert for a foreign audience, is the book that made the word bushido a household..."

This source names Japan directly: "the bone disease named itai-itai in Japan from contaminated rice, and its use is now heavily restricted."

This source names Japan directly: "ancient, medieval and early modern Japan in one place, rather than treating any single period alone."

This source names Japan directly: "suppression in early Tokugawa Japan, covering the political and religious dimensions of the Shimabara Rebellion and the ideological grounds on which the shogunate treated Christian loyalty as..."

This source names Japan directly: "Dower's Embracing Defeat, Japan in the Wake of World War II, published by W."

This source names Japan directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Emperor of Japan, read directly for this pass, which states that under the Meiji Constitution of 1889 the Emperor held sovereign power in his own right, and that the 1947..."

This source names Japan directly: "and only after the army returned to Japan did she bear Ojin, whose reign later chroniclers set apart from ordinary rule with an unusually long life and an unbroken run of good fortune."

This source names Japan directly: "own Shinto studies program in Japan, the university most closely associated with Shinto scholarship, giving direct access to Japanese language scholarship on kami, shrines, rites and festivals in..."

This source names Japan directly: "Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan, Susumu Shimazono's 2004 study from Trans Pacific Press, is a scholarly work by a leading Japanese scholar of religious studies with direct access to..."

This source names Japan directly: "drawn from his own years living in Japan from 1890."

This source names Japan directly: "article on Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Lafcadio Hearn's 1894 two volume, fifteen chapter collection of travel sketches from his 1890 to 1894 years in Japan, stating it "discusses several themes..."

This source names Japan directly: "edition of Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, First Series, giving the sixteen part table of contents, which includes chapters devoted to small and remote shrine visits ("The Chief City of the Province..."

This source names Japan directly: "at the Kotoku-in temple in Kamakura, Japan."

This source names Japan directly: "City, Iwate Prefecture, in northern Japan, begun in the fourteenth or fifteenth century when the people of the region, worshipping Mount Hayachine as a deity, built a performance tradition around..."

His reign name, Showa, is used for the era from 1926 to 1989 in Japanese dating.

This source names Japan directly: "of conflicts across Sengoku period Japan in which leagues of Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priests, peasants, merchants and local warriors, known as Ikko-ikki and organized under the Honganji temple's..."

This source names Japan directly: "article on the Imperial Regalia of Japan carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is continuously subject to further editing."

This source names Japan directly: "Rescript on the Construction of a New Japan, popularly known as the Ningen Sengen or Humanity Declaration, is Emperor Showa's own 1946 imperial rescript in which he renounced the traditional claim..."

This source names Japan directly: "directions, and bore the islands of Japan and a host of kami."

Carried out across Japan under the authority of the Tokugawa shogunate.

This source names Japan directly: "Dobbins is a scholar of Japanese Buddhism, and this Indiana University Press book is his academic history of Jodo Shinshu, the Shin Buddhist school founded on Shinran's teaching, as it developed and..."

This source names Japan directly: "the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism in Japan after a long period of decline."

This source names Japan directly: "Known in Japan as Jizo, he is venerated in East Asia as protector of travelers, expectant mothers and, distinctively, of deceased children, whose souls are said to be gathered under his robe..."

This source names Japan directly: "Max Moerman is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this Harvard University Asia Center book is his scholarly study of the Kumano pilgrimage, examining how the mountainous Kumano region of Japan came..."

This source names Japan directly: "Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan is a scholarly study of mizuko kuyo, the memorial rites for aborted and miscarried fetuses that emerged as a significant commercial and religious practice in..."

This source names Japan directly: "date of Confucianism's adoption in Japan, which the article discusses without fixing a year."

This source names Japan directly: "Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan is a scholarly study of Buddhism's persecution during Japan's early Meiji era, when the new government's push toward State Shinto and its haibutsu kishaku..."

This source names Japan directly: "sent to cleanse a mythic ancient Japan of corruption spread by an eight headed serpent demon."

This source names Japan directly: "at Church Headquarters, Tenri City, Japan, with the Shinbashira presiding and about two hundred thousand followers returning to Jiba to observe it."

This source names Japan directly: "traditions of China, Korea and Japan, which mark birth, enlightenment and death as three separate commemorations."

This source names Japan directly: "Ian Reader is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this academic book, published by Routledge, examines contemporary pilgrimage, including Japanese pilgrimage traditions such as the Shikoku circuit..."

This source names Japan directly: "Stalker is a historian of modern Japan, not a member of Omoto, and her study of Onisaburo Deguchi was published by an independent university press rather than by the movement itself."

This source names Japan directly: "Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan, published by Curzon Press in 2000, is a scholarly study of Aum Shinrikyo and the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, examining how the movement's teaching and..."

This source names Japan directly: "and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan, published by the University of Hawai'i Press in 2017, is a scholarly study of the eighth century Japanese state sutra copying bureaus, arguing that the..."

This source names Japan directly: "Vietnam and, in a more limited way, Japan, combining scholarly, ritual and administrative functions in a single role."

This source names Japan directly: "of the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, chiefly Okinawa."

This source names Japan directly: "teaching, the movement he began in Japan in 1930 by publishing a small magazine of the same name, Seicho-no-Ie meaning House of Growth."

Fought on the Shimabara Peninsula of Japan from December 1637 to April 1638, ending in the Tokugawa shogunate's near-total suppression of the region's Christian population at Hara Castle.

Indigenous kami worship practiced alongside Buddhism, without exclusive identification for most adherents.

This source names Japan directly: "Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the American West Coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought Shinto practice with it, and Hilo Daijingu, founded in 1898, became the first..."

This source names Japan directly: "This rule fixes Shogatsu, Japanese New Year, on the first of January and runs three days."

This source names Japan directly: "Green Shinto's reproduction of a Japan Times article, byline Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, on the structural absence of income disclosure at Japanese Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples under..."

This source names Japan directly: "Levi McLaughlin is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this is an academic monograph published by University of Hawai'i Press studying Soka Gakkai, the lay Buddhist movement, as a modern social and..."

This source names Japan directly: "The film opened in Japan on July 20, 2001, runs two hours and four minutes, and became the first hand drawn and first non English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature."

This source names Japan directly: "Parent in Tenri City, Nara Prefecture, Japan, organized into a Medical Treatment Department, a Religious Guidance Department and a Service Department, combining conventional medicine with Tenrikyo..."

This source names Japan directly: "and dispatched to disaster sites in Japan and abroad, including flooding, earthquakes and typhoons, to clear debris, distribute aid and provide medical assistance."

This source names Japan directly: "Boxer's The Christian Century in Japan, 1549 to 1650, University of California Press, 1951, corrected reprint 1967, is the foundational English-language academic study of the whole Kirishitan..."

This source names Japan directly: "The Constitution of Japan, promulgated by the National Diet of Japan in 1947, is the nation's own foundational legal text."

This source names Japan directly: "of Nichiren Shoshu near Mount Fuji, Japan."

This source names Japan directly: "1274, shortly after word reached Japan of the first Mongol invasion the previous month."

This source names Japan directly: "de Visser's The Dragon in China and Japan is an early twentieth century scholarly study systematically comparing dragon mythology and religious symbolism across Chinese and Japanese sources, written..."

This source names Japan directly: "Released in Japan on 8 September 1973, it grossed roughly 1.19 billion yen and was followed by a 1976 sequel, Zoku Ningen Kakumei."

This source names Japan directly: "Turnbull's The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan: A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day, Japan Library, 1998, is a specialist academic study of the hidden Christian..."

This source names Japan directly: "The Kojiki is Japan's oldest surviving chronicle, compiling the country's foundational mythology and early history, and this is Basil Hall Chamberlain's pioneering English translation, published..."

The persecution took place across Japan under the new Meiji national government.

This source names Japan directly: "Buddhist teaching in ninth century Japan directly from Kukai's own writings and their historical reception, and its specific relevance here is documenting how the five element doctrine was..."

This source names Japan directly: "of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie, Japan, described in the article's own words as "the first Shinto shrine built in the mainland United States after World War II." The article also records the..."

This source names Japan directly: "of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine in Mie, Japan, founded the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America in Stockton, California, the first Shinto shrine built on the US mainland since the Second World War."

This source names Japan directly: "in late Muromachi and Sengoku period Japan, published by the Harvard University Asia Center in 2007."

This source names Japan directly: "mobilization after the Great East Japan Earthquake, independently corroborating that Tenrikyo's Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps campaign, running for more than four months, involved roughly 18,600..."

This source names Japan directly: "Xuanzang, unearthed in 1942 during Japanese wartime construction work in Nanjing, and its subsequent division among temples in China, Japan, Taiwan and India."

This source names Japan directly: "history across both China and Japan, with this second volume tracing the Japanese Soto and Rinzai schools specifically through their documented historical development rather than presenting Zen as..."

Kyoto lies within modern Japan and was its imperial capital from 794 to 1868.

Nihonium is named for Nihon, one of the Japanese names for Japan. Named in 2016 by the RIKEN team, the first element named for an East Asian country.

Hokkaido, now part of Japan, is the center of Ainu life and of the modern Ainu revival.

An equinoctial observance particular to Japanese Buddhism, with no Indian precedent.

The Japanese doll festival of the third day of the third month.

Ho No Hana arose in Japan.

The Japanese new year, and the largest observance of the shrine calendar.

Kagoshima, Satsuma domain, Kyushu.

Urakami village, near Nagasaki.

Nationwide, with the severest violence in Kyushu.