... Asia challenging, or collaborating with, political authority and defending what they believe is important to the sangha. TRADITION OF ENGAGEMENT In fifteenth-century Japan the ikko ikki monks of the Jodo-Shinshu (Pure Land sect) were ...
Bringing together contributors working in the fields of education, anthropology, history, sociology, political science and media studies, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to all students and scholars concerned with issues ...
... Japanese Imperial flag used during World War II . So , have Cool Japan and otaku culture mistakenly crystallised the national identity of Japan as being inextricably linked to popular culture ? The use of popular and otaku culture as ...
... identity, exacerbate the long-standing legacy of identifying each other as hostile, and lead to mutual bullying as each seeks to become one great again. Looming large here is the role of Japan ... Asia. New York: Norton. Goh, Evelyn. 2013.