“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Five: Beliefs and Practices This chapter discusses a range of issues that relate to beliefs and practices in Japan. The chapter begins by considering what is meant by ‘religion’ and whether it is different in Japan. The chapter ...

“Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition) – Chapter Five: Beliefs and Practices

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Favourite Photos: Ichinokurasawa and Mount Tanigawa (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition)) Japan: The Basics contains many photographs (all taken by me) to help with the discussions in the book. I have previously done individual posts on each of the photos that were in the first edition tha...

Favourite Photos: Ichinokurasawa and Mount Tanigawa (Photo in “Japan: The Basics” (2nd Edition))

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World Book Day – My Favourite Book For this year's World Book Day, staff in my School at Cardiff University were encouraged to write about their favourite book. You can see the display of my choice in the photograph with this post. The...

World Book Day – My Favourite Book

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Mental Health Awareness Day 10 October is Mental Health Awareness day. As I also wrote last year, it’s one of those days where I think it’s sad that we still need to have a day to raise awareness of the issues sur…

Mental Health Awareness Day and Mount Tanigawa

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Climber’s High – Completing The Set In March, I wrote a post about re-listening to the audiobook ‘Seventeen’, which is the English name for the novel クライマーズ・ハイ Kuraimazu Hai (literally ‘Climber’s High’).…

Climber’s High – Completing The Set

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