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From a global perspective, Japanese culture scores higher on emancipative values (individual freedom and equality between individuals) and individualism than most other cultures, including those from the Middle East and Northern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, India and other South Asian countries, Central Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America and South America.
Japanese philosophy has historically been a fusion of both indigenous Shinto and continental religions, such as Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.Formerly heavily influenced by both Chinese philosophy and Indian philosophy, as with Mitogaku and Zen, much modern Japanese philosophy is now also influenced by Western philosophy.
Japan has some of the highest rates of child poverty in the developed world, according to a Unicef report released in April 2016 that ranked Japan 34th out of 41 industrialised countries. [11] It has also been estimated that only 200,000 of the 3.5 million poor children receive child support.
In 1929, the Poor Relief Act was passed to relieve the tensions between labor and capital. The Poor Relief Act recognized the obligation of the state to support the poor with the national income. In 1938, after the Second Sino-Japanese War, the government officially established the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Japan adopted the familialism ...
Giri is a social obligation, best explained by how it conflicts with ninjō. According to Doi Takeo [clarification needed], giri is among those forms and actions that locates the self in relation to society, whereas ninjō concerns the inner and intimate realm of the self. [4]
Why Japan doesn't have as severe of a housing crisis as the US Japan is something of an outlier when it comes to housing affordability for a few major reasons: population decline and deregulated ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). A samurai in his armor in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato Bushidō (武士道, "the way of the warrior") is a moral code concerning samurai ...
Cruelty Free International estimates that Japan ranks second in the world (behind the United States) in the number of animals used in experiments. [19] Testing cosmetics on animals is both legal and mandatory in Japan. The law requires that "quasi-drugs," such as skin-lightening products, suntan lotion, and hair growth tonics, be tested on ...