Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and heal

Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and heal

This book, based on original anthropological fieldwork, provides a detailed ethnography of Naikan in practice.

This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture: the prevalence of discussions and representations of “spirits” (tama or tam

Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to est