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February 29, 2012
A Shinto Response to the March 2011 Disasters in Japan
Shinto is the indigenous spirituality of Japan, its beliefs and practices woven into the fabric of Japanese culture and society. Shinto shrines play diverse social roles in their respective communities throughout Japan. Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Shinto shrines have played various roles in the relief and reconstruction efforts. Professor Kevin M. Doak presented a general overview of Shinto in the Japanese historical context, followed by Rev. Masafumi Nakanishi, who spoke specifically to the Shinto response to the 2011 disasters.
The panel discussion was jointly organized by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the SFS Asian Studies Program, The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Japan Disaster Relief Committee, the World Faiths Development Dialogue, and the International Shinto Foundation. Rev. Nakanishi also performed a Shinto ritual in remembrance of the victims of March 2011.
Click here to read an article about the event in the Washington Post.
Click here to read an article about the event in the Washington Post.
Featuring
Masafumi Nakanishi
Rev. Masafumi Nakanishi is a Shinto priest, and officer at the New York Center of the International Shinto Foundation (ISF). In his position with ISF, Rev. Nakanishi serves as the Shinto representative at United Nations functions, and in the greater New York region. He was born into a Shinto family and grew up in the Grand Shrine of Ise in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Rev. Nakanishi majored in religious studies at the Graduate School of Kokugakuin University, and studied Japanese history at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been assigned as the Shinto priest at different shrines throughout Japan, including the Meiji Grand Shrine in Tokyo, Masumida Shrine in Aichi Prefecture, and he is presently assigned to Chichibu Shrine in Saitama Prefecture.