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Japanese Religious History: Religion in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan

By: Simon August Thalmann

Japanese Buddhism: The Heian Period: Tendai and Shingon

By: Simon August Thalmann

Early Japanese Religion: Confucianism, Taoism and Folk Religion

By: Simon August Thalmann

Why did Japan go to War? Japanese Imperialism during World War II

By: Jim Osborn

Samurai Women Warriors: Breaking Through Barriers

By: Megan L. Oakley

The Tram Girls of Hiroshima: Teenage Women Who Sacrificed Their Youth to Save a City

By: Feature Writer Frank W. Hardy

Douglas MacArthur in Japan: The Origins of Japan, Inc.

By: Michael C. McHugh

The Japanese Village in Ayutthaya: Overseas Japanese in the Seventeenth Century

By: John Walsh

Japanese Tea Ceremony: Steeped in history, traditions survive into modern society

By: Lyn Michaud

Samurai: Japanese Honor, Tradition: Evolution, Virtues, and Life of the Stoic Japanese Samurai

By: Steve DeVault

Dancers of Medieval Japan: The Respected Prostitute Entertainers of Kamakura

By: John Walsh

Shinto: The Unifying Force in Japanese Society

By: John Walsh

Women's Status in Medieval Japan: Female Marriage and Labour in Japan's 14th-17th Centuries

By: John Walsh

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