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Japanese values are cultural goals, beliefs and behaviors that are considered important in Japanese culture. From a global perspective, Japanese culture stands out for its higher scores in emancipative values, individualism, and flexibility compared to many other cultures around the world. There is a similar level of emphasis on these values in ...
Confucian values and popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in eighteenth century Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 1993) online; Zhang, Yan Bing, et al. "Harmony, hierarchy and conservatism: A cross-cultural comparison of Confucian values in China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan." Communication research reports 22.2 (2005): 107-115. online
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Yamato-damashii (大和魂, "Yamato/Japanese spirit") or Yamato-gokoro (大和心, "Japanese heart/mind") is a Japanese language term for the cultural values and characteristics of the Japanese people.
Giri [1] [2] is a Japanese value roughly corresponding to "duty", "obligation", or even "burden of obligation" in English. Namiko Abe [clarification needed] defines it as "to serve one's superiors with a self-sacrificing devotion". [citation needed] It is among the complex Japanese values that involve loyalty, gratitude, and moral debt. [3]
Japanese values (26 P) M. Moral panic (5 C, 54 P) Pages in category "Value (ethics)" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Wa is considered integral to Japanese society and derives from traditional Japanese family values. [4] Individuals who break the ideal of wa to further their own purposes are brought in line either overtly or covertly, by reprimands from a superior or by their family or colleagues' tacit disapproval.
The leaders of the restoration sought to revive traditional Japanese values and culture, and saw Confucian Shinto as a way to do so. They promoted the idea of kokutai , or the "national essence", which was based on the Confucian notion of the ruler-subject relationship and the Shinto idea of the emperor as a divine being. [ 7 ]