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  • 12 - Constitutional Buddhism

  • from Part IV - Northern and Northeastern Asia
  • Edited by Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Book:
    Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 241-271
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    This chapter presents two contrasting examples of Buddhist activists whose on-the-ground activities and institution-building efforts have been defined by concerns about divisions between religion and state stipulated by Japan’s 1947 Constitution. The first case introduces Buddhist clergy who mobilized following the March 11, 2011, disasters in northeast Japan. The second investigates the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai and its affiliated political party Komeito. Both cases demonstrate the need to look beyond court cases to determine ways in which constitutional religion and state divisions have determined the actions of Japanese Buddhists and their legal statuses in Japan’s postwar order.