Susumu Shimazono, one of Japana??s foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. At
Shimazono (religious studies, U. of Tokyo) presents, in English, 16 papers he wrote between the late 1970s and 2003 in Japanese or in English; many of the Japanese papers have been previously translat
The trial of the "German doctors" exposed atrocities of Nazi medical science and led to the Nuremberg Code governing human experimentation. In Japan, Unit 731 carried out hideous experiments on captur
