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Japanese have probably always believed in amulets of one kind or another, but the modern printed charms now given out by shrines and temples first became popular in the Tokugawa period or later, and the practice of a person wearing miniature charms is also new. The latter custom is particularly common in cities.
Japanese numismatic charms can include characters never used on any official coins such as Kokuji, which is a national script unique to Japan similar to Gukja in Korea or Chữ Nôm in Vietnam, these charms, with the pronunciation sa mu ha ra (, さ・む・は・ら), were usually given by village elders to soldiers when they left to fight in the Second Sino-Japanese war and World War II ...
Magatama dating from Jōmon period to 8th century [citation needed] Magatama from Kofun period（Tokyo National Museum）. Magatama (勾玉, less frequently 曲玉) are curved, comma-shaped beads that appeared in prehistoric Japan from the Final Jōmon period through the Kofun period, approximately 1000 BCE to the 6th century CE. [1]
In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda (お札/御札, honorific form of fuda, ' slip [of paper], card, plate ') or gofu (護符) is a talisman made out of various materials such as paper, wood, cloth or metal.
Recycling in Japan (リサイクル, Risaikuru), an aspect of waste management in Japan, is based on the Japanese Container and Packaging Recycling Law. Plastic, paper, PET bottles, aluminium and glass are collected and recycled. Japan's country profile in Waste Atlas shows that in 2012 Recycling Rate [clarification needed] was 20.8%. [1] [specify]
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Japanese coin-like amulets on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. Numismatic charms are East and Southeast Asian exonumic amulets and talismans, including: Buddhist coin charms; Chinese burial money; Chinese numismatic charms; Coin-swords; Confucian coin charms; Hongwu Tongbao; Horse coins; Indonesian numismatic charms; Japanese ...
Human trophy taking in Mesoamerica; Mokomokai: the much-traded and much-collected preserved tattooed heads of New Zealand Maori; The Aghori Hindu sect in India collects human remains which have been consecrated to the Ganges river, making skull cups, or using the corpses as meditation tools.