For more than 1500 years, Confucianism has played a major role in shaping Japan's history - from the formation of the first Japanese states during the first millennium AD, to Japan's modernization in ...

Larsson, Ernils 2024. The Naha Confucius Temple lawsuit and religion-making in Japan’s courts of law. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 12, Issue. 1, p. 26. In mainstream assessments of Confucianism ...

A manuscript of commentaries about Confucianism written apparently between the sixth and early seventh centuries in China was confirmed in Japan ... been handed down at temples, shrines or ...

A Canadian teenager has been questioned by police in Japan after carving letters on a wooden pillar of an 8th Century temple. Police said the 17-year-old boy carved "Julian" on a pillar at the ...