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  • JAPANESE INFLUENCES AND PRESENCES IN ASIA
    IAN READER / MARIE SOEDERBERG
    While scholarly works on this topic have to date mainly concentrated on Japan's influences in economic and political terms, this volume examines Japanese influences in Asia from a broader perspective. The text takes into account human factors, such as the presence of Japanese people as workers, managers and visitors in Asian societies and the flow of Japanese goods in terms on ...

    $980.00

  • RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
    IAN READER
    The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly f...

    $2,100.00

  • JAPANESE RELIGIONS PAST AND PRESENT
    ESBEN ANDREASEN / IAN READER / FINN STEFANSSON
    Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings. ...

    $1,560.00

  • PILGRIMAGE IN THE MARKETPLACE
    IAN READER
    The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests ...

    $1,280.00