Shanghai’s International Settlements are commonly seen as a integral part of both China’s and the West’s combined history, a unique point of contact that has most famously been viewed as one of the main stages on which the ...

"Prophecy is rash, but it may well be that the publication of. D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem in future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's translations of ...

This thesis examines to what extent Confucianism is still apparent in modern Korea by comparing the 12th century work Family Rituals with the modern Korean drama A Gentleman’s Dignity. Korea has been modernizing rapidly ...

Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s classic bunraku (puppet) plays found their new theater in the younger Japanese film industry of the 1950s and 60s. This fascination with the traditional aspects of Japanese society and life ran ...

On August 6th, 1945, when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan became the first nation to endure a nuclear attack. After the conclusion of the Second World War, the memory of this nuclear ...

The first group of Issei in the United States left Japan from the beginning of the Meiji Period through the time of the Immigration Act of 1924. The experiences of these first generation Japanese Americans were extremely ...

The world contains various groups of individuals where they struggle to fit in to society due to their 'different' ethnicity. This paper discusses the unique case of Zainichi Koreans, Koreans residing in Japan, who struggle ...

Within the Heian period, nikki bungaku, diary literature, began to be produced in great numbers. Written by female members of the court, the prime purpose of nikki was their use as a form of political power. As there was ...

This thesis explores the topic on the extent of female empowerment in Japanese Buddhism from the perspectives of female religious figures. The main argument posits that, despite contrary belief, maintaining attachments to ...