President's Daily Report
Publication of *How Has Religion Been Involved in War?*
*How Has Religion Been Involved in War?*, a book based on the NHK program “The Age of the Heart,” has been published. In addition to the content from the program, the book includes columns that delve deeper into the themes. I wrote the chapter titled “Passing Down Memories and Responsibility Regarding War: Reflections on the ‘Ethics of the Absent.’”
If you’re interested, please be sure to read it.
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The book description is provided below.
As we mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, we reexamine the relationship between religion and war. Why were religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Tenrikyo, and Oomoto incorporated into the wartime regime and collaborated with the war effort? Furthermore, how have they confronted their responsibility in the postwar era?
Through discussions and essays by leading researchers and religious figures, this book examines the responsibility of religion for the war, contemporary postwar responsibility, and the relationship between religion and politics.
This book is a compilation of in-depth discussions from the NHK series “The Age of the Heart: Religion and Life.”
[Table of Contents]
Introduction—Religion’s “Responsibility for War” and Today’s “Postwar Responsibility” [Hideya Kamakura]
[Part 1] Religious Collaboration with the War Effort
1. Religion and War—Current Issues
2. Religion and War: Exploring the Origins—From the Meiji Restoration to the Russo-Japanese War Period
3. How Did Religions Accept “State-Centric Ideology”?—The Taisho and Early Showa Periods
4. How Did Religion Underpin the War?—The Asia-Pacific War Period
COLUMN
The Current State of the “Just War Theory” in the Catholic Church [Chiharu Miyoshi]
Questions Raised by the History of Buddhism During Wartime [Shuntaro Kondo]
[Part 2] The Process and Current State of Postwar Responsibility
1. How Has Religion Confronted War Responsibility in the Postwar Era?
2. How Has Religion Viewed “Sacrifice for the Nation”?
3. What Should Be Passed Down Across Generations
COLUMN
Beyond the “War Responsibility” Model [Takashi Nagaoka]
The Sin of Imposing a Breach of the Precept Against Killing on Buddhist Monks [Takuji Hirose]
Inheriting Memories and Responsibility Regarding War—Reflections on the “Ethics of the Absent” [Katsuhiro Kohara]