State Shintoism and Buddhist Persecution. THAT THE MEI]I RESTORATION \'\'AS BROUGHT ABOUT BY A COMbination of forces (such as the development of commerce, industry and capitalism) which were united under the slogan of the Restoration of· Imperial Rule which, in turn, was concocted bv the students of the Hirata School of Shintoism under the impending atmosphere of \'V'estern encroachment to the ...

Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal focused on Asian poverty in his major work An Drama (Myrdal, 1969). Now after fifty years of rapid economic development it is time to inquire into institutional performance we-ordered societies. The measuring rod -rule law- has nò basis mainstream Asisn philosophies: neither Hinduism or Buddhism nor Confucianism Shintoism.