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Inoguchi, Takashi; Fujii, Sho

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9072-0_2

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“…Fertility in Japan fell to below replacement levels in 1970s and was estimated to be 1.34 children for the 2005-2010 period (UNPD 2013). In Japan, 32% of the population is Buddhist (Mahayan strand), while 60% regard themselves as religiously unaffiliated (Inoguchi 2006). We surmise that the predominance of non-affiliated individuals and Buddhist populations might, to a certain extent, contribute to low fertility in Japan.…”

Section: Japanmentioning

confidence: 80%

Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?

Skirbekk¹,

Stonawski²,

Fukuda³

et al. 2015

DemRes

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Background: The influence of religion on demographic behaviors has been extensively studied mainly for Abrahamic religions. Although Buddhism is the world's fourth largest religion and is dominant in several Asian nations experiencing very low fertility, the impact of Buddhism on childbearing has received comparatively little research attention. Objective: This paper draws upon a variety of data sources in different countries in Asia in order to test our hypothesis that Buddhism is related to low fertility. Methods: Religious differentials in terms of period fertility in three nations (India, Cambodia and Nepal) and cohort fertility in three case studies (Mongolia, Thailand and Japan) are analyzed. The analyses are divided into two parts: descriptive and multivariate analyses. Results: Our results suggest that Buddhist affiliation tends to be negatively or not associated with childbearing outcomes, controlling for education, region of residence, age and marital status. Although the results vary between the highly diverse contextual and institutional settings investigated, we find evidence that Buddhist affiliation or devotion is not related to elevated fertility across these very different cultural settings. Conclusions: Across the highly diverse cultural and developmental contexts under which the different strains of Buddhism dominate, the effect of Buddhism is consistently negatively or insignificantly related to fertility. These findings stand in contrast to studies of Abrahamic religions that tend to identify a positive link between religiosity and fertility

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Section: Japanmentioning

confidence: 80%

Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?

Skirbekk¹,

Stonawski²,

Fukuda³

et al. 2015

DemRes

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“…Accordingly, I compiled my indices from seven sources: The World Values Survey (WVS), 63 The Eurobarometer (EB), 64 the Afrobarometer (AFB), 65 the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LP), 66 the Asian Barometer (AB), 67 the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) 68 and the World Health Organization (WHO). If pure cross-cuttingness and cross-fragmentation are highly related, the differences discussed above would be minor.…”

Section: The Empirical Relationship Between Measures Of Social Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…An alternative strategy is to extract similar information from nationally representative surveys, such as public opinion surveys. Accordingly, I compiled my indices from seven sources: The World Values Survey (WVS), 63 The Eurobarometer (EB), 64 the Afrobarometer (AFB), 65 the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LP), 66 the Asian Barometer (AB), 67 the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) 68 and the World Health Organization (WHO). 69 In addition to the several rounds of WVS, the use of several surveys allowed me to test the robustness of my scores for a handful of countries that appeared on two or more of the surveys.…”

Section: The Empirical Relationship Between Measures Of Social Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-Cuttingness, Cleavage Structures and Civil War Onset

Selway¹

2010

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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This article seeks to further our understanding of how social structure affects the onset of civil war. Existing studies to date have been inconclusive, focusing only on single-cleavage characteristics of social structure, such as ethnic or religious fractionalization. This study argues that models that do not take into account the relationship between cleavages (or cleavage structure) are biased and thus reach faulty conclusions. With the focus on the cleavages of ethnicity and religion, the effects of two characteristics of cleavage structure on civil war onset (cross-cuttingness and cross-fragmentation) are defined and tested. A new index of ethno-religious cross-cuttingness (ERC), derived from national public opinion surveys, reveals that ERC is a significant determinant of civil war onset when interacted with ethnic fractionalization.

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“…Arguably, this approach does bear some fruit as despite its “mission” Japan continues to enjoy an overwhelmingly positive reception among the ruling elites and general public in all five Central Asian republics (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan 2015; Inoguchi 2005). This can be explained not only by the absence of heavy historical baggage, Japan’s long-term commitment to the region’s development, the lack of any visible signs of neocolonial ambitions and perceived closeness between Japanese and Central Asian populace (Dadabaev 2016), but also, to no lesser degree, by its flexibility in dealing with the “five stans.”…”

Section: Japan’s “Self” Vis-à-vis Central Asian “Other”mentioning

confidence: 99%

Japan’s Central Asia Policy Revisited: National Identity, Interests, and Foreign Policy Discourses

Insebayeva

2019

Nationalities Papers

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This article focuses on the nature of Japan’s foreign policy formulation and legitimization through a study of its interaction with Central Asian countries. The article examines foreign policy discourse that constructs Japan’s “self” vis-à-vis Central Asian “other.” It reveals the textual mechanism through which reality, objects, and subjects are constructed, and it interprets the official statements contained in several foreign policy initiatives, in particular, the “Eurasian (Silk Road) Diplomacy,” the “Central Asia plus Japan,” and the “Arc of Freedom and Prosperity,” as an attempt to understand the intersubjective knowledge and analytical lens through which Japanese foreign policy makers conceive and interpret the constructed “reality,” produce foreign policy choices, and choose among identified alternatives.

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The AsiaBarometer Survey Project

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?

Is Buddhism the low fertility religion of Asia?

Cross-Cuttingness, Cleavage Structures and Civil War Onset

Japan’s Central Asia Policy Revisited: National Identity, Interests, and Foreign Policy Discourses

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