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Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto sanctuary located in Tokyo, has become the focus of a recent dispute in Japan,

In Japan recently, new overviews for the comparative study of the history of religions have been presented. Taking into account the plurality of Japan ese religions, religious studies scholar Yamaon fetsuo has reevaluated the theories of the history of Japanese religions. Umesao Tadao, a leading eth nologist and scholar in the comparative study of civilizations, reviews the historical phases of religions East and West on the Eurasian continent with his theory of the "hypothesis of phasic correspondence, Murakami Yasusuke, a theoretical economist with expertise in Japanese history, stud ies the encounters between a nomadic society and an agricultural society in the light of Robert N. Bellah 's theory of religious evolution to give insig'ht into the origin of "historic religions. " Another religious studies scholar, Shimazono Susumu, attempts to revise Bellah， s theory both with a new framework on salvation religions and with an original understand ing of "New Spirituality Movements.