Intelligence Reimagined
Executive Briefing: Max Weber Reconsidered While Max Weber claimed Confucianism lacked the ascetic rationalism to spawn capitalism, the modern rise of South …
Executive Briefing: The Architecture of Perpetual Rebirth Every twenty years since 690 CE, the Grand Shrine of Ise is completely dismantled and rebuilt ident…
Executive Briefing: Cleansing the Mirror of the Heart Shinto theology replaces the Western concept of original sin with Kegare (spiritual stagnation, polluti…
Executive Briefing: The Eight Million Kami (Yaoyorozu no Kami) Shinto does not conceive of God as a transcendent external sovereign; the sacred (*Kami*) is t…
Executive Briefing: The Imperial Mythological Canon Compiled in 712 CE, the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) narrates the churning of the primordial ocean…
Executive Briefing: A Millennium of Fusion For over a thousand years until the Meiji restoration’s forced separation (*Shinbutsu Bunri*), Shinto and Buddhism…
Executive Briefing: The Sacred Recharging of the Neighborhood A Matsuri is the somatic and energetic climax of Shinto communal life. Parading the Kami throug…
Executive Briefing: The Regalia of Japanese Monarchy The Imperial Regalia of Japan (Sanshu no Jingi)—the Yata no Kagami (mirror of wisdom), Kusanagi no Tsu…
Executive Briefing: The Deep Sigh of the Heart Articulated by 18th-century scholar Motoori Norinaga, Mono no Aware is the melancholic aesthetic sensitivity t…
Executive Briefing: The Political Flashpoint of Memory Established in 1869 to enshrine war dead, Yasukuni Shrine was central to pre-1945 State Shinto (*Kokka…