Ancestor-Worship and Japanese Law

Taking Japanese Law Seriously

Hero worship

This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

Japanese Dependency Analysis Using the Ancestor-Descendant Relation

We propose a novel method for Japanese dependency analysis, which is usually reduced to the construction of a dependency tree. In deterministic approaches to this task, dependency trees are constructed by series of actions of attaching a bunsetsu chunk to one of the nodes in the tree being constructed. Conventional techniques select the node based on whether the new bunsetsu chunk and each node...

Celebrity worship, addiction and criminality

Two studies assessed the relationship between celebrity worship and (i) addiction (n 1359) and (ii) criminality (n 2158). Overall Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) scores correlated positively with Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) Addiction and Criminality sub-scale scores. In further support of the absorption addiction model of celebrity worship (McCutcheon, Lange, & Houran, 2002...

The Ancestor Worship Practices’ Evolutions in Peri-Urban Vietnam A Case of Study in Ho Chi Minh City

Ancestor worship is not a particular religion, it is more a cultural fact and a social practice that crosses the different religious currents and may even involve individuals and families, not claiming religious affiliation [1]. However, ancestor worship is considered as the most fundamental ritual act in Viet Nam [2]. Most Vietnamese have practiced this domestic cult since the dawn of time. Ea...