3rd Research Meeting (Research Approach 1)

Date: 2nd April 2011

Time: 13:30-17:00

Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya Campus, ’58 Building 2F Research Center for International Japanese Studies Seminar Room

Speakers & Themes:

UCHIHARA Hidetoshi (Academic Researcher, Research Center for International Japan-Studies, Hosei University) / Transition of Autonomy and Community in Fengu Shui and ancestral Rituals: A Case in Yaeyama Islands

TAKAYAMA Hidetsugu (Adjunct Lecturer, Nishogakusha University) / Buddhists in Modern Age and “Japan”: From the Point of View of the True Pure Land School

Chair: TANAKA Yuko (Professor, Hosei University)

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We welcomed Mr Hidetoshi Uchihara and Dr. Hidetsugu Takayama and had their reports.
Mr. Uchihara’s theme was “Transition of Autonomy and Community in Fengu Shui and ancestral Rituals: A Case in Yaeyama Islands” and examined the relationship between geographic or natural phenomena and people in Ryuku, especially Yaeyama Islands.
Dr. Takayama reported with the theme “Buddhists in Modern Age and “Japan”: From the Point of View of the True Pure Land School” and discussed the overseas mission work to clear the details of the modernization of Buddhism.

Reported by SUZUMURA Yusuke (Visiting Academic Researcher, Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies)