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		Japanese literature is full of similar stories about unwilling champions compelled to put down unwise challenges.
		His philosophy could not be simpler:'I feel strongly that the word "work" refers to the production of perfect goods only.
		But the Japanese didn't achieve their economic miracles without the mixture of worldliness and spirituality that's beautifully demonstrated by a third story from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.
	www.thinkingmanagers.com /management/commitment.php (2851 words)

	Watsuji Tetsuro
		The foundations of Watsuji's thought were the extensive studies in Western philosophy that he engaged in during his earlier years, up until 1917 or 1918, followed by his extensive studies in Japanese and Far Eastern philosophy and culture.
		What he saw as most exemplary in the Japanese way of life was the Bushido ideal of “the absolute negativity of the subject” (Odin 1996, 67), through which the totality of the whole is able to be achieved.
		The salient point of all of this is that the instances of isolationism in Japanese history are exceptions which run counter to what Watsuji saw as the dominant tendency of the Japanese to both welcome and encourage outside influence.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/watsuji-tetsuro (8528 words)

	Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The association between philosophy and nationalist politics was not forgotten after the War and sometimes caused the one to be rejected with the other, especially on the Left.
		This aspect of his philosophy is quite contemporary, and has brought about a "return" to Nishida on the part of some Japanese intellectuals who have found anticipations of a Japanese "post-modernity" in his thought, while others worry about the renewal of nationalism this return appears to imply.
		He believed that Japanese philosophy was destined to raise this feature of Japanese culture to universality much as the natural sciences had universalized Western culture.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/Ultnish.htm (9082 words)

	Japanese philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		The most distinctive characteristic of Japanese philosophy is how it has assimilated and adapted foreign philosophies to its native worldview.
		Japanese philosophy thus bears the imprint of a variety of foreign traditions, but there is always a distinctively Japanese cultural context.
		In order to understand the dynamics of Japanese thought, therefore, it is necessary to examine both the influence of various foreign philosophies through Japanese history and the underlying or continuing cultural orientation that set the stage for which ideas would be assimilated and in what way.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/G100 (928 words)

	Japanese Philosophy and Religion Books
		Ok, I admit it, the philosophy department, and even history department at my school wasn't always thrilled with the way people though about things in the psychology department and the English department, but this book is an example of why we get to have those feelings.
		I'm not well trained in Japanese philosophy and have only done some reading on my own (being as it is often far from the terrain of analytic philosophy that I studied at university) but I really enjoyed it and it gave me a better understanding of the main players.
		There has been the accusation that the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophers, heavily influenced by contemporary German philosophers and Zen, and in particular Nishida Kitaro were in fact nationalists or collaborated too willingly with the nationalist government.
	konrad.lawson.net /books/japphil.html (1253 words)

	Uchii Lecture
		Japanese followers of this "new philosophy of science" quickly introduced the new trend, without paying due regards to the legacy of the logical empiricism.
		Philosophy of space and time, and philosophy of quantum mechanics owe a lot to Reichenbach, and in the U.S., these became a major field of philosophy of science attracting many brilliant scholars; thus although Russell Hanson criticized the "standard view", he retained important legacy of logical empiricism.
		Murakami pursued up-to-date topics in the philosophy of science, and more generally, in the recent science studies; thus in recent years he seems to have left the philosphy of science in the narrow sense, and transformed himself to a proponent of STS and other newer branches of science studies.
	www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp /~suchii/cntr-lec.html (4985 words)

	DeepCollar: Japanese Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The conceptual expression of Japanese �culture since the turn of the 6th century Ad�.
		The term philosophy has been considered somewhat misleading in reference to Japanese thought, since Japanese premodern thinking tended to be directed more toward the realm of existence than toward that of essence.
		Japanese philosophy is not generally indigenous; Japanese thinkers have always freely appropriated foreign philosophical systems and insights
	deepcollar.blogspot.com /2005/02/japanese-philosophy.html (75 words)

	Just-in-Time. Online. CHAPTER 1 -M.Abraham. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Japanese were forced to implement tighter material control to cut wastage and improve productivity to maintain their competitive edge.
		"Japanese firms seem to have an explicit philosophy that anything they are doing can be improved." This is what enables development of better techniques, there are no rules, only experience and the proof of success in the market place.
		The philosophy can be applied across external company linkages, backwards to suppliers and forward to customers, later chapters concentrate on the backwards aspect of JIT implementation.
	www.88honeylane.freeserve.co.uk /just-in-time/chapter1.htm (4614 words)

	A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COLIN WILSON'S WORK
		For example, I have labelled most of the "Outsider" books philosophy, but this is barely accurate; rather, they are combinations of philosophy, literary criticism/theory, psychology, theology, and sociology.
		Wilson puts his philosophy in the context of recent split-brain theories.
		Wilson's attack on Sartre's philosophy, as well as an account of his meeting with Camus in 1957.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jbmorgan/cwbib.html (1295 words)

	Japanese Philosophy and Religion Books
		Anthology of Japanese Literature: from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century
		The Japanese and English are side by side and a map in the back helped me follow Basho on his trip through northern mountains, some of which I had biked along or climbed up.
		Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
	konrad.lawson.net /books/japlit.html (1090 words)

	Buddhist philosophy, Japanese : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		As an extension of its practical bent, Japanese Buddhist thought often tended to collapse differences between Buddhism and other forms of Japanese religiosity, between this phenomenal world and any absolute realm, and between the means and end of enlightenment.
		These tendencies are not Japanese in origin, but they extended further in Japan than in other Buddhist countries and partially define the character of Japanese Buddhist philosophy.
		The development of Japanese Buddhist philosophy can thus be seen as the unfolding of major themes rather than a series of philosophical positions in dispute.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/G101#G101P1.48 (531 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Japanese Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Japanese Philosophy is the first book to assert the existence of a Japanese philosophy prior to Nishida Kitaro in the early twentieth century.
		By doing so, and by providing an overview of Japanese philosophy from the seventh century to the present, the authors contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding between East and West.
		Gene Blocker is Professor of Philosophy at Ohio University.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0791450198 (369 words)

	philosophy -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The keynote in Chinese philosophy is humanism: man and his society have occupied, if not monopolized, the attention of Chinese philosophers throughout the ages.
		Japanese philosophy is not generally indigenous; Japanese thinkers have always freely appropriated foreign philosophical systems and insights to express their...
		branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9059729 (962 words)

	Kariya Park, Mississauga Ontario, Canada: Japanese Garden Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We gaze at the Japanese garden with the nagging sensation that we could be seeing more, understanding more.
		This is why tourists visiting a Japanese temple garden often come away with only half-sight - without penetrating the subtleties of the landscape, esteeming only the superficial, mistaking the obvious for sublime.
		The Japanese garden is really a kind of anthology of symbolic images and patterns.
	www.uoguelph.ca /~lmilburn/kariya/philosophy.html (195 words)

	Asian Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Japanese Philosophy (theory-related; could also include what we've covered in the Buddhism section): Selections 21, 23, 24, 25, 26
		Japanese Philosophy (and zen's) reaction to the West, including the problem of nationalism and imperialism during the Pacific War: 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,
		References will also be made to the larger cultural and political issues that are relevant in these traditions today, including the problem of “westernization” and “modernization” and their impact.
	www.arisaka.org /asian01Ssyl.html (1029 words)

	Japanese Philosophy and Religion (Jones) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This course is an upper level Introductory course to the themes and problems of Japanese philosophy and reiigion beginning in ancient times and moving historically to modern times.
		The course begins with an introduction to Japanese culture and its relationship to the development of Japanese thought and religious practice.
		This investigation will involve some Japanese ideals of beauty--aware (sensitivity), yugen (mystery and depth), sabi (loneliness), etc.--as they are embodied in various forms of Japanese art (poetry, literature, ceramics, painting, tea ceremony, drama, film, etc.) and their relation to cultural expressions of kata (form) and a m a e (dependency).
	library.kcc.hawaii.edu /external/asdp/phil/easian/japan/jones.html (440 words)

	BA - Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Their coverage spans the beginnings of Japanese history to the present and includes discussion of Japanese religions, which strongly influenced Japanese philosophical thought, and relevant social background.
		The selection and style of the articles is academic, and the topics covered fall into the areas of formal logic and theory of scientific language, general scientific theory (in the sense of a theory of knowledge), and specialized scientific theories dealing with fundamental questions of individual branches of science.
		This work focuses on some 320 figures of European philosophy who, over the course of more than two thousand years, have had lasting influence and continue to be cited today.
	www.rre.casalini.com /1996/BA-96-23.html (1143 words)

	Culture and Ethnicity in Philosophy
		A word about philosophy, religion, and culture: Clearly, the line between religion and philosophy in many traditions is not as stark as in Western philosophy.
		Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese Philosophical Studies IX Book: Tang Yi-jie, Li Zhen, and George McLean, eds.
		Is Intercultural Philosophy a New Branch or a New Orientation in Philosophy?
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~janzb/philcult (1795 words)

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		Since its inception in 2001, Philosophy Men has been challenging men's fashion with their edgy, exciting and outrageous line of menswear.
		Tired of the limited range of menswear found in department stores, founders Tino Soon and Allan Chan decided it was time for men to have some fun with their outfits.
		Like its sister brand for women Salabianca, Philosophy will have a collection based on the adopted fashion style of a chosen country each year.
	www.dexigner.com /fashion/news-g4729.html (230 words)

	Non-Western Philosoophy at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion is more than just a dictionary of terms.
		It includes the lives of significant teachers, mystics and philosophers; entries for the basic texts and scriptures; capsules of the various sects and schools of thought; as well as mythological figures and events.
		Such a range of submissions is acceptable and desired, since the trend, by which academic philosophy has obscured and esotericized itself, and mostly dropped out of popular and literate culture, should be resisted.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~topics/html/nonwestern_philosophy.htm (199 words)

	The Social Self in Japanese Philosophy and American Pragmatism: a Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsurcō and George ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Japanese notion of ie (family, household) has in modern times come to represent the generalized idea of "group-consciousness." Scholarly writings in the area classified as Nihonjinron ("studies of Japanese uniqueness"), notably works by cultural anthropologist Nakane Chie, have pointed to the group-consciousness of the ie system as a defining characteristic of Japanese society.
		Indeed, it is now commonplace in the recent proliferation of Nihonjinron texts to characterize Japanese corporate society in terms of such notions as "familism," "groupism," "Japan, Inc.," and so forth.
		Toward this end I undertake a textual analysis of Rinrigaku (Ethics) (1937) by Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960), wherein he elaborates a Confucian/Zen model of the self as a network of familial and social relationships which embodies increasingly larger communities in the process of achieving personhood.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=95692071 (544 words)

	Sushi, Science, and Spirituality: Modern Japanese Philosophy and Its Views of Western Science - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It appears to the frustration of social scientists in their attempts to apply to the Japanese context Western models of social, political, or economic analysis.
		Part of the answer is undoubtedly social or historical and best left to the analyses of specialists in those fields.
		In particular, they have asked (1) what the Western form of scientific and technological thinking is and (2) how it might function in Japan without eroding spiritual and moral values traditional to East Asia.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=95840691 (555 words)

	Joint Honours in Japanese and Philosophy
		However, since the learning of a difficult language such as Japanese from scratch is a particularly demanding undertaking, it has 60 credits allocated to it at Level 1.
		The remaining 20 credits are taken as electives, which may take the form either of further courses in one or both of the chosen main subjects or of one or more courses in another subject.
		Economic Development in East Asia; Japanese Literature and Modernity; The Japanese Economy; Politics in Contemporary Japan; Japan's International Relations; Religion in Japan; International Politics of the Asia Pacific Region; Sino-Japanese Relations: Past and Present; Contemporary Southeast Asia; Dissertation (20 or 10 credits); The Rise of Japanese Economic Power, 1868-1992.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /programmes/200203/ug/japaphil.htm (637 words)

	Powell's Books - History of Japanese Thought: 592-1868: Japanese Philosophy Before Western Culture Entered Japan by ...
		While many historians take the view that Japanese philosophy only started with the Meiji Restoration and the entrance of Western culture into Japan, Hajime Nakamura demonstrates that there has been a long history of philosophy in Japan prior to the Meiji.
		Arguing that there is a long history of Japanese philosophy running from before the Meiji Restoration and the entrance of Western culture, Nakamura (former Director of the Eastern Institute in Tokyo) traces the history of philosophy from pre-modern Japan to the 1700s.
		Focusing primarily on Buddhist thinkers, chapters chronologically look at how Japanese philosophers have grappled with questions and problems that, according to Nakamura, are fundamentally of the same kind as those discussed in the West, in India, and in China.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0710306504 (330 words)

	Macrobiotics, the Japanese Philosophy of Living Harmoniously with Nature
		This Japanese philosophy now enjoys a worldwide following attracted by its principles of harmonious living with nature through a balanced whole foods diet, an active lifestyle and respect for the environment
		Part of this wave, and more holistic in its vision than others, was macrobiotics—a Japanese philosophy based on healthy eating that drew inspiration from Taoism, the diet of Zen Buddhist monks and the traditional Japanese way of life.
		Macrobiotic philosophy is based on the ancient Taoist belief that everything in creation is made up of two antagonistic but complementary forces—yin (passive, silent, cold and dark) and yang (active, hot and heavy).
	www.lifepositive.com /Body/holistic-recipes/recipes/macrobiotics.asp (1472 words)

	Japanese Curriculum Units for NEH Workshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		McLaren, Ronald. “Kawaiso, justice and reciprocity: Themes in Japanese and Western Ethics.” Philosophy East and West 34, 1 (January 1984): 53-66.
		Odin, Steve. “The Social Self in Japanese Philosophy and American Pragmatism: A Comparative Study of Watsuji Tetsuro and George Herbert Mead.” Philosophy East and West 42, 3, 1992: 475-501.
		The Japanese unit material would be sectioned topically according to the chapters in the ethics text. For example, when studying duty ethics, Japanese Confucianism would be considered.
	web.jccc.net /neh/units_japan/stohs.htm (1407 words)

	Watsuji Tetsuro
		This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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		The Japanese live their lives within this relational network.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/win2004/entries/watsuji-tetsuro (8446 words)

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