The Influence of Confucianism and Buddhism on Life‐Innovators in the Japanese Socio‐Economic Order

Abstract

The Japanese spirit, as an integration of gods indigenous to Japan (“Shinto”), Confucianism and Buddhism, seems to have formed today's economy and society in Japan, for good or bad, just as modern societies in Europe and America were once created by the spirit of Puritanism.

Citation

Nato, T. (1986), "The Influence of Confucianism and Buddhism on Life‐Innovators in the Japanese Socio‐Economic Order", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 53-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014013