What's the Divine origin of Japan?

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&&What's Buddhism & Sinocentrism?

Answer 1

Huge question. The Divine origin of Japan pertains to their ancient god dipping a spear into the waters and wherever the drops fell from the spearhead as it was withdrawn formed the islands of Japan. Buddhism started in India and the last I don't know. If you want more specifics, go to the library, Will Durrant's "Our Oriental Heritage" catalogs all of this. Look in the index if you don't want to read the whole book.

Answer 2

What's Buddhism & Sinocentrism?

Pagan worship.

Answer 3

Shinto is purely a Japanese religion, the origins of which are buried in antiquity. The Japanese are a people who love their land and believe the islands of Japan were the first divine creation. This idea of the divine origin of their land is very old and goes hand-in-hand with the beliefs of Shinto. This national idealism, the love of their country, is basically why Shinto has been limited to Japan
The Japanese came early to the belief that their land was divine, but late to the nationalistic dogma that no other land is divine, that the divinity of Japan is so special and unique, so absent elsewhere, as to make Japan "center of this phenomenal world"
The Japanese name for their country is Nippon, which means "sun origin' " Until the end of World War II, Japanese children were taught at school that the emperors were descendants of the sun-goddess, Amaterasu. Amaterasu had allegedly given the imperial house the divine right to rule. In 1946, in a radio broadcast to the Japanese people, Emperor Hirohito repudiated his divine right to rule.
The word Shinto comes from the Chinese word Shen-tao, which means "the way of the gods. " This term was not applied to the religion until the sixth century A.D., in order to distinguish it from Buddhism. A major feature of Shinto is the notion of kami. Kami is a difficult term to define precisely but it refers basically to the concept of sacred power in both animate and inanimate objects. Ninian Smart elaborates upon the idea of kami in the following manner:

Buddhism began in India about 500 years before the birth of Christ. The people living at that time had become disillusioned with certain beliefs of Hinduism including the caste system, which had grown extremely complex. Moreover, the Hindu belief of an endless cycle of births, deaths and rebirths was viewed with dread. Consequently, the people turned to a variety of beliefs, including the worship of animals, to satisfy this spiritual vacuum.

Sinocentrism is any ethnocentric perspective that regards China to be central or unique relative to other countries. China is said not to have forced other civilizations to conform to its standards. Many of its neighbors - Korea and Japan included - willingly emulated China because they recognized elements of Chinese civilization as being worthy of emulation.
According to this view, China has been generally peaceful throughout its history: with rare exceptions, China is said never to have made any forceful attempts to invade or colonize other nations. China's territorial expansion is attributed to ethnic groups such as the Mongols and Manchus, not the Han Chinese. However, in modern times, such ethnic groups are now regarded as equally part of the Chinese nation in the People's Republic of China, under the pluralistic ideal of Zhonghua Minzu