: Japan’s Challenge of Embracing Differences: Public School as a Battlefield for Religious Nationalism and Religious Freedom/Freedom of Conscience

• In Event: When Religion and State Merge: Religious Nationalisms

Brief Overview

This research examine how narratives surrounding the issue of Japanese public school prayer, kimigayo, have been changing over time, and how this can be a useful barometer to gauge minority protections in comparative perspectives worldwide.

Author

• Shino Yokotsuka, University of Massachusetts, Boston