Nippon.com's feature on Udo Shrine and the Turtle Rock, published by the Nippon Communications Foundation, is professional cultural journalism describing the shrine's setting on the Nichinan coast and the legend of the sea god's daughter giving birth there. Its strength is editorial oversight by an established cultural foundation aimed at explaining Japanese tradition to an international readership. Its limit is that it is popular cultural journalism rather than peer reviewed folklore scholarship, so a claim needing deeper academic grounding needs a dedicated scholarly source.
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Reliability TierNippon.com's magazine feature on Udo Shrine and the Turtle Rock where the sea god's daughter gave birth, published by the Nippon Communications Foundation, the middle tier reflecting that it is professional cultural journalism aimed at an international audience rather than an independently peer reviewed academic source, though produced by an established foundation with editorial standards. Cite it for the shrine's legend and setting as popularly told rather than for scholarly folklore analysis. NotesEdited journalism from Nippon.com, run by the Nippon Communications Foundation, a public-interest media foundation with real editorial standards rather than an academic press. Its exact publication date is not stated on the page itself, an absence named rather than guessed at. Used here only for its description of Udo Jingu's cave setting, the breast rock, and the separate turtle rock fortune-stone custom. 1 Citation
AuthorNippon.com editorial staff 1 PublisherNippon.com (Nippon Communications Foundation) 1 URLhttps://www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/gu022005/ 1 Sources
Claims Backed By This Source (6 claims)
This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 4 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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