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The Universal Peace Federation (UPF): Origins, Development, and Challenges of the Unificationist “Abel United Nations” 世界和平联合会（UPF）：统一派 "阿贝尔联合国 "的起源、发展与挑战

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0008

Dominic S. Zoehrer, Lukas K. Pokorny

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Technologies of Power and BruHealth Biopolitics amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brunei Darussalam 新冠肺炎疫情背景下的文莱电力技术与BruHealth生物政治

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0007

C. Hoon, J. Jammes

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Protecting the Country and Preventing Calamities: The Pure Land Practice of Hwadzan Pure Land Society in the Physical and Virtual Realm 保国防灾:华赞净土社在物质与虚拟境界的净土实践

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0006

Stefan Kukowka

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Understanding Chinese Christian Far-Right Narrative in the COVID-19 Context: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective 新冠肺炎背景下的中国基督教极右翼叙事:跨学科视角

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0005

Yan Liu

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Reconsidering Resistance: Ainu Cultural Revival as Protest 重新考虑抵抗:阿伊努文化复兴作为抗议

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0001

C. Powell

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Anzen mamoru: The Representation of the Japanese Police in Japanese Factual Television Anzen mamoru:日本警察在日本实况电视中的表现

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0002

Matthias Pech

{"title":"Anzen mamoru: The Representation of the Japanese Police in Japanese Factual Television","authors":"Matthias Pech","doi":"10.2478/vjeas-2022-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2022-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper is about the representation of the Japanese police in three factual television series. In all three series, the audience accompanies police officers during their work and thus gets a close look at the daily work of the Japanese police. However, even if the series try to convey a feeling of authenticity, staging strategies which aim at the entertainment and education of the audience can be clearly identified. I therefore place them in the intermediate area between the genres of reality TV and documentaries. The research method adopted in this study is Werner Faulstich’s qualitative movie analysis, based on his book Grundkurs Filmanalyse (2013), in combination with a descriptive quantitative approach. In the analysis I ask what kinds of messages about the Japanese police are created in the three series under examination. The major findings can be summarised as follows: the comprehensive image created about the Japanese police is positive. The police force is legitimised above all by its professionalism and success in providing assistance to people in need by arresting criminals and proving their guilt, but also by its monopoly position as the sole competent crisis solver.1 This kind of representation does not come as a surprise as such; the paper, however, will show how this overall positive image is created by specific filmic techniques.","PeriodicalId":233452,"journal":{"name":"Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"43 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120911054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Four Palaces in Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Adaptation of a Vietnamese Worship between Prohibition, Safety, and Social Networks 新冠肺炎大流行时期的四大宫殿:越南崇拜在禁令、安全与社交网络之间的适应

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0003

Camille Senepin

{"title":"The Four Palaces in Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Adaptation of a Vietnamese Worship between Prohibition, Safety, and Social Networks","authors":"Camille Senepin","doi":"10.2478/vjeas-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In February 2020, Vietnam closed its borders to prevent the emergence of COVID-19 in the country. Nevertheless, after the appearance of the first large infected cluster in March 2020, the situation gradually deteriorated since July 2020. The Vietnamese government decided to ban gatherings, and therefore certain religious practices. The religions in the country had to adapt their practices to this new situation. In this article, I will explore the situation of the Four Palaces (Tứ Phủ) and its possession ritual (len đồng). After recalling the chronology of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Vietnam, I will highlight how this worship adapted its practices in the north of the country at the beginning of the pandemic and during the Vietnamese lockdowns. Moreover, I will draw a parallel to discuss the ban of the ritual practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and the prohibition of “superstitious practices” that occurred in Vietnam between the late 1950s and the 1990s. The article will stress the importance of social media, in particular Facebook, and their uses by the mediums and followers of the Four Palaces while exploring the discourses that can be seen within the social networks.","PeriodicalId":233452,"journal":{"name":"Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127844411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Legacy of an Accommodative Secularism: Religions and Taiwan’s Responses to COVID-19 宽容世俗主义的遗产:宗教与台湾应对新冠疫情

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2022-0004

André Laliberté

{"title":"The Legacy of an Accommodative Secularism: Religions and Taiwan’s Responses to COVID-19","authors":"André Laliberté","doi":"10.2478/vjeas-2022-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2022-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Throughout the two years of this pandemic, Taiwanese public authorities have obtained cooperation from religious organisations in limiting and mitigating the contagion, and the population was largely spared the influence of conspiracy theories about the virus’ origins. I have found no trace of any significant doomsday theologies among the major religions practiced in Taiwan emerging in the public health emergency caused by COVID-19. What explains this largely cooperative relationship? From the perspective of public policy, why has the government obtained the compliance of most religious actors to its directive and faced little or no opposition coming from them? I use a historical institutionalist approach to argue that decades of toleration from political leaders of all trends towards religions have generated a path dependency of mutual trust and that legacy predates the period of democratisation. The article explores the extent to which this outcome results from three factors: Taiwan’s religious diversity, or the absence of a religious hegemony opposed to the state; pragmatic and flexible theologies; and/or convergence between successive Taiwanese governments’ social policies and the social teachings of religions.","PeriodicalId":233452,"journal":{"name":"Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132504864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Sōka Gakkai 1968 Youth Movement: The Creation of Conviviality and Friendship in Sino-Japanese Relations Sōka学社1968青年运动:中日关系中欢乐与友谊的创造

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2021-0007

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen

{"title":"The Sōka Gakkai 1968 Youth Movement: The Creation of Conviviality and Friendship in Sino-Japanese Relations","authors":"Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen","doi":"10.2478/vjeas-2021-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2021-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article discusses an episode in the history of Sōka Gakkai that began as alternative youth movement under Ikeda Daisaku who came to advocate “people’s diplomacy” (minkan gaikō) as a way to foster goodwill between China and Japan. Why would Sōka Gakkai, a legally constituted “religious corporation” (shūkyō hōjin) be so serious about engaging with a Communist regime that did not recognise religion? The article discusses what “religion” or “religious behaviour” means in Sōka Gakkai, and questions the usefulness of such a classification on a qualitative level. Ikeda’s interpretation of Nichiren Buddhism highlights his approach to something seemingly very “unreligious”—namely, the normalisation of Sino-Japanese relations. Unlike the more traditional “reactive revolution” of protest movements that constructed politics as primarily a binary, ideological choice to achieve its aims, Ikeda prioritised finding ways to transcend that very ideology-centric, counter-politics approach. By appealing to conviviality, a sense of shared humanity and humility on the part of the Japanese towards their past history of colonialism, a new social imaginary and attitude that differed from politics of opposition between left and right entered as a historical force that continues to be promoted by Sōka Gakkai today.","PeriodicalId":233452,"journal":{"name":"Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125150869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The “Aum Incident” as a Catalyst for Societal Critique: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor of Asahi Shinbun on Aum Shinrikyō 作为社会批判催化剂的“奥姆真理教事件”——《朝日新闻》关于奥姆真理教的信函分析》

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI: 10.2478/vjeas-2021-0006

Patricia Sophie Mayer

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