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Tra Storia E Leggenda “Kusanagi No Tsurugi” La Spada Falciatrice D’Erba
Tra storia e leggenda “Kusanagi no Tsurugi” la Spada Falciatrice d’Erba Si narra che il dio Haya Susanoo - figlio del dio Attorno alle spade giapponesi (alla loro origine, ai Izanagi, creatore, insieme alla dea Izanami, delle fabbri che le forgiarono, ai personaggi che ne furo- isole nipponiche - venne esiliato nella regione di no in possesso o ne subirono gli effetti) sono fiorite Izumo dalle otto centinaia di decine di migliaia nel tempo numerose storie e leggende come quella di dei. Qui egli uccise un drago con otto teste per di Susanoo, sospese tra mito e realtà storicamente salvare una vergine, offerta in sacrificio al mostro. documentate. Tramandati di padre in figlio in epoche Trafitta a morte la bestia, si affrettò a smembrarla con lontane, molti di questi racconti sono inverosimili la propria spada ma, arrivato alla coda, non riuscì a alla luce della pragmatica logica occidentale, ma un troncarla: il filo della spada si intaccava, cozzando tempo erano venerati in Giappone come indiscutibili contro un elemento prodigiosamente inscalfibile. verità rivelate: spade indistruttibili e prodigiosamente Squarciata la coda per tutta la lunghezza, il dio trovò affilate riparavano torti e scacciavano spiriti malvagi all’interno una grande spada, che venne chiamata in nome della giustizia. E portavano nomi propri, Tsumugari (La Ben Affilata). Susanoo la consegnò legati al possessore, al fabbro o, più frequentemente, alla dea solare Amaterasu, che la diede poi al nipote ad un particolare elemento della loro straordinaria Ninigi quando questi discese dal cielo per governare vicenda. il Giappone. La spada fu infine ereditata dagli impe- ratori, il decimo dei quali, Suigin, ordinò che fosse _ custodita nel tempio di Ise. -
Education Reform in Japan: a Case of Immobilist Politics (The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) 1
Education Reform in Japan The Japanese education system is widely praised in western countries as a model to be emulated. In Japan, however, the system is criticized for its strict uniformity and for its supposed failure to train the creative minds that are needed for the next stage of economic advance. Since 1967 the Japanese government has twice embarked on major reform initiatives, but despite these high-profile attempts it has failed to achieve significant reform. Education Reform in Japan explains this failure in terms of an inability to reach consensus. The author argues that the prolonged one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party has led to an internal diversity that has obstructed political change. He describes the paralysis that develops in the Japanese policy-making process when rifts occur between bureaucrats, party leaders and politicians specializing in education. He argues, moreover, that this ‘immobilism’ is not confined to education reform, but afflicts other areas of Japanese policy making as well. Leonard Schoppa is an Assistant Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia. He was first exposed to the Japanese education system as an elementary school child living in Japan, and became interested in the Japanese education reform debate after working as a junior high school teacher in the city of Kumamoto. His subsequent research took him back to Japan for numerous interviews with leading politicians, government officials and teachers’ union leaders. THE NISSAN -
Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32/: –33 © 2005 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture R. Keller Kimbrough Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural The supernatural powers of Japanese poetry are widely documented in the lit- erature of Heian and medieval Japan. Twentieth-century scholars have tended to follow Orikuchi Shinobu in interpreting and discussing miraculous verses in terms of ancient (arguably pre-Buddhist and pre-historical) beliefs in koto- dama 言霊, “the magic spirit power of special words.” In this paper, I argue for the application of a more contemporaneous hermeneutical approach to the miraculous poem-stories of late-Heian and medieval Japan: thirteenth- century Japanese “dharani theory,” according to which Japanese poetry is capable of supernatural effects because, as the dharani of Japan, it contains “reason” or “truth” (kotowari) in a semantic superabundance. In the first sec- tion of this article I discuss “dharani theory” as it is articulated in a number of Kamakura- and Muromachi-period sources; in the second, I apply that the- ory to several Heian and medieval rainmaking poem-tales; and in the third, I argue for a possible connection between the magico-religious technology of Indian “Truth Acts” (saccakiriyā, satyakriyā), imported to Japan in various sutras and sutra commentaries, and some of the miraculous poems of the late- Heian and medieval periods. keywords: waka – dharani – kotodama – katoku setsuwa – rainmaking – Truth Act – saccakiriyā, satyakriyā R. Keller Kimbrough is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at Colby College. In the 2005– 2006 academic year, he will be a Visiting Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture. -
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VOLUME 1: BORDERS 2018 Published by National Institute of Japanese Literature Tokyo EDITORIAL BOARD Chief Editor IMANISHI Yūichirō Professor Emeritus of the National Institute of Japanese 今西祐一郎 Literature; Representative Researcher Editors KOBAYASHI Kenji Professor at the National Institute of Japanese Literature 小林 健二 SAITō Maori Professor at the National Institute of Japanese Literature 齋藤真麻理 UNNO Keisuke Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese 海野 圭介 Literature KOIDA Tomoko Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese 恋田 知子 Literature Didier DAVIN Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese ディディエ・ダヴァン Literature Kristopher REEVES Associate Professor at the National Institute of Japanese クリストファー・リーブズ Literature ADVISORY BOARD Jean-Noël ROBERT Professor at Collège de France ジャン＝ノエル・ロベール X. Jie YANG Professor at University of Calgary 楊 暁捷 SHIMAZAKI Satoko Associate Professor at University of Southern California 嶋崎 聡子 Michael WATSON Professor at Meiji Gakuin University マイケル・ワトソン ARAKI Hiroshi Professor at International Research Center for Japanese 荒木 浩 Studies Center for Collaborative Research on Pre-modern Texts, National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) National Institutes for the Humanities 10-3 Midori-chō, Tachikawa City, Tokyo 190-0014, Japan Telephone: 81-50-5533-2900 Fax: 81-42-526-8883 e-mail: [email protected] Website: https//www.nijl.ac.jp Copyright 2018 by National Institute of Japanese Literature, all rights reserved. PRINTED IN JAPAN KOMIYAMA PRINTING CO., TOKYO CONTENTS -
Demae-Can / 2484
Demae-can / 2484 COVERAGE INITIATED ON: 2017.12.25 LAST UPDATE: 2021.06.25 Shared Research Inc. has produced this report by request from the company discussed herein. The aim is to provide an “owner’s manual” to investors. We at Shared Research Inc. make every effort to provide an accurate, objective, neutral analysis. To highlight any biases, we clearly attribute our data and findings. We always present opinions from company management as such. The views are ours where stated. We do not try to convince or influence, only inform. We appreciate your suggestions and feedback. Write to us at [email protected] or find us on Bloomberg. Research Coverage Report by Shared Research Inc. Demae-can / 2484 RCoverage LAST UPDATE: 2021.06.25 Research Coverage Report by Shared Research Inc. | https://sharedresearch.jp INDEX How to read a Shared Research report: This report begins with the Trends and outlook section, which discusses the company’s most recent earnings. First-time readers should start at the later Business section. Executive summary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Key financial data ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 Recent updates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Producing Place, Tradition and the Gods: Mt. Togakushi, Thirteenth through Mid-Nineteenth Centuries Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90w6w5wz Author Carter, Caleb Swift Publication Date 2014 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Producing Place, Tradition and the Gods: Mt. Togakushi, Thirteenth through Mid-Nineteenth Centuries A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Languages and Cultures by Caleb Swift Carter 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Producing Place, Tradition and the Gods: Mt. Togakushi, Thirteenth through Mid-Nineteenth Centuries by Caleb Swift Carter Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor William M. Bodiford, Chair This dissertation considers two intersecting aspects of premodern Japanese religions: the development of mountain-based religious systems and the formation of numinous sites. The first aspect focuses in particular on the historical emergence of a mountain religious school in Japan known as Shugendō. While previous scholarship often categorizes Shugendō as a form of folk religion, this designation tends to situate the school in overly broad terms that neglect its historical and regional stages of formation. In contrast, this project examines Shugendō through the investigation of a single site. Through a close reading of textual, epigraphical, and visual sources from Mt. Togakushi (in present-day Nagano Ken), I trace the development of Shugendō and other religious trends from roughly the thirteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. This study further differs from previous research insofar as it analyzes Shugendō as a concrete system of practices, doctrines, members, institutions, and identities. -
The Bank of Japan – Institutional Issues of Delegation, Central Bank Independence And
The Bank of Japan – Institutional Issues of Delegation, Central Bank Independence and Monetary Policy Von der Mercator School of Management, Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, der Universität Duisburg-Essen zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Wirtschaftswissenschaft (Dr. rer. oec.) genehmigte Dissertation von Markus Heckel aus Bremen Erstgutachter: Prof. Dr. Werner Pascha Zweitgutachter: Prof. Dr. Markus Taube Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 29. Juli 2014 I Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables .................................................................................................. VI List of Abbreviations .......................................................................................................... VIII 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Research Questions ..................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Organisation of the Dissertation ................................................................................. 4 2. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ...... 7 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Principal-Agent Theory .............................................................................................. 7 2.2.1 Principal-Agent Theory of Central Banks and Monetary Policy ........................ 8 2.2.2 Multiple -
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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02903-3 - The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature Edited by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki Index More information Index Abbot Rikunyo (1734–1801), 465 Ukiyo monogatari (Tales of the Floating Abe Akira (1934–89), 736 World, 1661), 392 Abe Kazushige (b. 1968), 765, 767 Atsumori, 8, 336, 343 Abe Ko¯bo¯(1924–93), 701, 708, 709, 760 aware (pathos), 80, 138, 239, 299, 474, 486 Adachigahara, 339 Ayukawa Nobuo (1920–86), 717 akahon (red books), 510–22 Azuma nikki (Eastern Diary, 1681), 409 Akazome Emon, 135, 161, 170, 193–7 Azumakagami, 201 Akimoto Matsuyo (1911–2001), 708 azuma-uta (eastland songs), 77, 79, 82, 111 Akizato Rito¯(?–1830), 524 To¯kaido¯ meisho zue (Illustrated Sights of Backpack Notes. See Matsuo Basho¯ the To¯kaido¯, 1797), 524–5 Bai Juyi (or Bo Juyi, J. Haku Kyoi or Haku Akutagawa Ryu¯nosuke (1892–1927), 286, 630, Rakuten, 772–846), 124 639, 669, 684, 694–5, 700 Baishi wenji (Collected Works of Bai Juyi, ancient songs, 25, 26, 28–9, 37, 40–4, 52, 57–8, J. Hakushi monju¯ or Hakushi bunshu¯, 60; see also kiki kayo¯ 839), 184–6, 283 Ando¯ Tameakira (1659–1716), 138, 480 Changhen-ge (Song of Never-Ending Shika shichiron (Seven Essays of Sorrow, J. Cho¯gonka, 806), 152 Murasaki, 1703), 138 Baitei Kinga (1821–93), 530 anime, 729, 764 bakufu (military government), 95, 201, 211–12, Anzai Fuyue (1898–1965), 684, 714–15 215, 216, 295, 297, 309, 312, 314, 348–9, aohon (green books), 510–22 374–6, 377–8, 388, 389, 393–5, 419, 432–3, Aono Suekichi (1890–1961), 658–9 505–7, 520–2, 532–3 Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725), 4, 461, 546 banka (elegy), 54, 63–4, 76, 77, 83 Arakida Moritake (1473–1549), 326 banzuke (theater programs), 391, 425, 452 Arakida Reijo (1732–1806), 377 Battles of Coxinga. -
Nintendo Co., Ltd
Nintendo Co., Ltd. Financial Results Briefing for the Nine-Month Period Ended December 2007 (Briefing Date: 2008/1/25) Supplementary Information [Note] Forecasts announced by Nintendo Co., Ltd. herein are prepared based on management's assumptions with information available at this time and therefore involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Please note such risks and uncertainties may cause the actual results to be materially different from the forecasts (earnings forecast, dividend forecast and other forecasts). Nintendo Co., Ltd. Consolidated Statements of Income Transition million yen FY3/2004 FY3/2005 FY3/2006 FY3/2007 FY3/2008 Apr.-Dec.'03 Apr.-Dec.'04 Apr.-Dec.'05 Apr.-Dec.'06 Apr.-Dec.'07 Net sales 439,589 419,373 412,339 712,589 1,316,434 Cost of sales 257,524 232,495 237,322 411,862 761,944 Gross margin 182,064 186,877 175,017 300,727 554,489 (Gross margin ratio) (41.4%) (44.6%) (42.4%) (42.2%) (42.1%) Selling, general, and administrative expenses 79,436 83,771 92,233 133,093 160,453 Operating income 102,627 103,106 82,783 167,633 394,036 (Operating income ratio) (23.3%) (24.6%) (20.1%) (23.5%) (29.9%) Other income 8,837 15,229 64,268 53,793 37,789 (of which foreign exchange gains) ( - ) (4,778) (45,226) (26,069) (143) Other expenses 59,175 2,976 357 714 995 (of which foreign exchange losses) (58,805) ( - ) ( - ) ( - ) ( - ) Income before income taxes and extraordinary items 52,289 115,359 146,694 220,713 430,830 (Income before income taxes and extraordinary items ratio) (11.9%) (27.5%) (35.6%) (31.0%) (32.7%) Extraordinary gains 2,229 1,433 6,888 1,047 3,830 Extraordinary losses 95 1,865 255 27 2,135 Income before income taxes and minority interests 54,423 114,927 153,327 221,734 432,525 Income taxes 19,782 47,260 61,176 89,847 173,679 Minority interests 94 -91 -34 -29 -83 Net income 34,545 67,757 92,185 131,916 258,929 (Net income ratio) (7.9%) (16.2%) (22.4%) (18.5%) (19.7%) - 1 - Nintendo Co., Ltd. -
The Colonial-Wartime Background to Japan's Development Cooperation
Background Paper No.10 Japan’s Development Cooperation: A Historical Perspective September 2020 【遺稿】 Interrogating “Comprehensive Development:” The Colonial-Wartime Background to Japan’s Development Cooperation Aaron Stephen Moore Associate Professor, Arizona State University In Memoriam: History Professor Aaron Moore (1972-2019) by Jin Sato, Professor of The University of Tokyo Dr. Aaron Moore (Arizona State University), the author of this paper, passed away in September 2019. He did not have the time to complete the revision himself, but the final touches have been offered by his dear colleagues and friends, Profs. Hiromi Mizuno (University of Minnesota) and Ian Miller (Harvard University) at the request of his bereaved family. Professor Moore was an outstanding historian of modern Japan who focused on the intersection of technology, history, and geo-political power. With his excellent command of the Japanese language, he delved into the unexplored archives of the Japanese consulting company, Nippon Koei, during his fellowship in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo in 2018. We publish this paper to remember his work and celebrate Dr. Aaron Moore's contribution to the scholarship on Japan’s development trajectory across Asia. アーロン・ムーア博士(1972-2019) への追悼文 ムーアさんと最初に出会ったのは、かれこれ 10 年近く前の全米アジア研究学会 (AAS)の時であった。日本の近現代の 対アジア政策についてのパネルでご一緒した。興味関心が近かったので、翌朝、ホテルで朝食をともにした。会議のとき はすべて英語であったが、朝食では流暢な日本語で話かけてきたので本当に驚いた。新世代の日本研究者の到来を感じ た。2013 年に上梓された彼の単著 Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s -
Powerful Warriors and Influential Clergy Interaction and Conflict Between the Kamakura Bakufu and Religious Institutions
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAllllBRARI Powerful Warriors and Influential Clergy Interaction and Conflict between the Kamakura Bakufu and Religious Institutions A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY MAY 2003 By Roy Ron Dissertation Committee: H. Paul Varley, Chairperson George J. Tanabe, Jr. Edward Davis Sharon A. Minichiello Robert Huey ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Writing a doctoral dissertation is quite an endeavor. What makes this endeavor possible is advice and support we get from teachers, friends, and family. The five members of my doctoral committee deserve many thanks for their patience and support. Special thanks go to Professor George Tanabe for stimulating discussions on Kamakura Buddhism, and at times, on human nature. But as every doctoral candidate knows, it is the doctoral advisor who is most influential. In that respect, I was truly fortunate to have Professor Paul Varley as my advisor. His sharp scholarly criticism was wonderfully balanced by his kindness and continuous support. I can only wish others have such an advisor. Professors Fred Notehelfer and Will Bodiford at UCLA, and Jeffrey Mass at Stanford, greatly influenced my development as a scholar. Professor Mass, who first introduced me to the complex world of medieval documents and Kamakura institutions, continued to encourage me until shortly before his untimely death. I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to them. In Japan, I would like to extend my appreciation and gratitude to Professors Imai Masaharu and Hayashi Yuzuru for their time, patience, and most valuable guidance. -
Discourses on Religious Violence in Premodern Japan
The Numata Conference on Buddhist Studies: Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future. University of Hawaii, March 2014. Discourses on Religious Violence in Premodern Japan Mickey Adolphson University of Alberta 2014 What is religious violence and why is it relevant to us? This may seem like an odd question, for 20–21, surely we can easily identify it, especially considering the events of 9/11 and other instances of violence in the name of religion over the past decade or so? Of course, it is relevant not just permission March because of acts done in the name of religion but also because many observers find violence noa, involving religious followers or justified by religious ideologies especially disturbing. But such a ā author's M notion is based on an overall assumption that religions are, or should be, inherently peaceful and at the harmonious, and on the modern Western ideal of a separation of religion and politics. As one Future scholar opined, religious ideologies are particularly dangerous since they are “a powerful and Hawai‘i without resource to mobilize individuals and groups to do violence (whether physical or ideological of violence) against modern states and political ideologies.”1 But are such assumptions tenable? Is a quote Present, determination toward self-sacrifice, often exemplified by suicide bombers, a unique aspect of not violence motivated by religious doctrines? In order to understand the concept of “religious do Past, University violence,” we must ask ourselves what it is that sets it apart from other violence. In this essay, I the and at will discuss the notion of religious violence in the premodern Japanese setting by looking at a 2 paper Religions: number of incidents involving Buddhist temples.