Perception of life and death in Japan
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چکیده
Whenever one talks about the perception towards life and death of a community, society or a race of people it is generally related to the religion or philosophy of that particular group. Japan is such a country which is often associated with death whether it is in form of its ritual suicides like harakiri and kamikaze or large number of deaths which occurred in the atomic bombing during the World War II or contemporarily, number of deaths occurring due to the natural calamities in the form of earthquakes, typhoons or tsunami. But when it comes to the question as to how do the Japanese perceive the life and death issues; surprisingly it is believed that an average Japanese does not think deeply about such issues. How can a society which faces death so closely due to their traditional and geographical conditions remain so aloof of such problems? This was a question which gave rise to an interest as to what actually is the perception towards life and death of the Japanese and what are the factors which influence such perceptions. This paper looks into these factors namely, religion, traditions and social factors. Then we study chronologically the perceptions of life and death in Japan in the various historical periods and in the end we look into the modern perspectives and the rise of the life and death studies in the twentieth and twenty first century in Japan.
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