Last two times we explored the history of Yasukuni shrine from its establishment to the modern day. Today we are going to take a peek at the belief system that was cultivated by the Yasukuni Shrine establishment, the Japanese Army and the The National/Imperial Government.

Outline: 

1. State Use of Death Rituals
2. Basic Shinto Cosmology
3. Buddhism and SHinto relations 
4. Buddhism and Shinto Separate
   1. The Two people who separated them
   2. Legal Problems for having Shinto Funerals
   3. The legal privileges of War time Shinto
5. Rituals as Buddhist 
6. How Shinto Adopted these rituals
7. Funeral Rites
8. Types of Ghosts / Spirits
9. Early Public Funerals 
10. Later Public Funerals 
11. Changing of public opinion
    1. Schools
    2. Propaganda - Forced compliance 

To Dream of Dreams (Book) David M. O'Brien and Yasuo Ōgoshi

Yasukuni Shrine (Book) Dr. Akiko Takenaka 

A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine 

https://escholarship.org/content/qt7zb9f29b/qt7zb9f29b.pdf?t=n4oxsc

In Credible Discourse Website

Music Credits: 

New Intro: http://shw.in/sozai/japan.php Tsuzdumi Japan 3 

Closing: Escaping_like_Indiana_Jones by Komiku

In Credible Discourse Shorts!

These are little fun Fact sized tid-bit mini-sodes.

Today we deal with the economic production and consequences of war in the Pacific.  We will see how the war time effort did not and could not have helped the Japanese economy and how the best for the prosperity of people throughout the Japanese empire was peace. 

InCredibleDiscourse.com

https://incrediblediscourse.com/economic-cost-of-war-japan-20th-century-japan/ 

The post war period is the first time that the Japanese government was forced to separate from religion, not for selfless reasons but according to its own laws and to preserve the existence of the Japanese State. Today we are going to explore how Yasukuni and its branches navigated the post war separation of State and Religion. We are going to look at some of the Legal cases that set precedent and how the vast majority of the government has tried to ignore those rulings.

Further Reading:  

• To Dream of Dreams (Book) David M. O'Brien and Yasuo Ōgoshi
• Yasukuni Shrine (Book) Dr. Akiko Takenaka
• A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine 
• https://escholarship.org/content/qt7zb9f29b/qt7zb9f29b.pdf?t=n4oxsc
• In Credible Discourse Website

Music Credits: 

• New Intro: http://shw.in/sozai/japan.php Tsuzdumi Japan 3 
• Closing: Escaping_like_Indiana_Jones by Komiku