RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Toothpaste, Romanization Of Japanese, Greater Tokyo Area
29 Apr 2014
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Japan is made up of 7,000 islands four main islands: hokkaido, honshu, shikoku, kyushu. Japan population: 135m central tokyo: 12m greater tokyo: 32m homogenous: 99% japanese, 200,000 brazilians. 23% of the population is at the age of 65+ plains are limited, therefore the urban landscape of japan has been divided. Writing systems kanji: chinese characters hiragana: alphabet katakana: syllables of japanese but written in sharper lines (used to write foreign words) romaji: english letters. Shinto: 85% -- indigenous religion of japan . Christian: 1% new religions: 20% non-religious: 70% people are affiliated with more than one religion see it more as tradition than religion religions are intro-related category of religion is different in japan. Japan is contextual" religion is more active (actions) seen more as cultural rather than religious. Religion religion shukyo": word came at the end of the 19th c. non-religious mushukyo".
