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The 12 pages that link to Confucianism in Japan, each with the reason it gives.

• ConfucianismBroader topic: Japanese interpretations reveal the tradition’s varied roles across East Asia.

• Tokugawa shogunateRelated: Tokugawa rulers drew on Confucian doctrines to justify hierarchy and proper social conduct.

• ConfuciusRelated: Japanese thinkers drew on Confucian ethics and political ideas transmitted from China.

• ShintoCompared with: Its emphasis on social ethics differs from Shinto’s kami-centered rites.

• AnalectsRelated: Japanese scholars and institutions drew on the Analects for moral and political teaching.

• Filial pietyRelated: Japanese interpretations connected family loyalty and respect to changing social institutions.

• Imperial Rescript on EducationRelated: Confucian virtues supplied much of the Rescript’s language of filial and social obligation.

• KokugakuCompared with: Kokugaku challenged the use of Confucian categories to interpret Japan’s ancient past.

• Kojiki-denCompared with: Norinaga opposed readings that explained ancient Japanese thought through Confucian moral categories.

• Motoori NorinagaCompared with: Norinaga criticized Confucian moral reasoning as a foreign framework imposed on ancient Japanese thought.

• Takizawa BakinRelated: Confucian moral ideals shape the ethical framework of Bakin’s fiction.

• Shibusawa EiichiNarrower topic: Shibusawa drew on Confucian ethical ideas to frame business as a public responsibility.