Japanese ¤È ¤È ¤Î Dead Philosophy Of Life ¤Î Control Study

Every national:culture has a set of value system under the mode of behaviorand social rules which is from the unique style and intension of nationalculture. The members of one national group can understand easily the valuesystem of their own nation which is understood hardly by the members of othernational group. The members in the same nation can know well each other by thesame value system and can not misunderstand which will not happen between thevaluesystems of different cultures. Because of the different mode of behavior,culture view and value system, people can not understand each other by therespective national value system.As neighboring Countries, between Japan and China there are lots of generalcharacters even the same scripts and race. But with a long-term development,the clear difference of characters between Japanese and Chinese has happened.Indeed, the national characters are existent and the difference in nationalcharacters is determined by many factors, such as culture, society, economy,education, and so on. This thesis will describe the difference of the conceptof life and death between Japanese and Chinese from the adages about the conceptof life and death, the basic ethical rules and the concepts of religions.The thesis includes five chapters: Chapter one is exordium which describesthe purpose, status quo and methods about the study. Chapter two expounds theconcept of life and death from the adages about the concept of life and deathin Japanese and Chinese. Chapter three expounds the concept of tile and deathfrom thebasic ethical rules of two countries. Chapter four expounds the conceptof life and death from religions and believes. Chapter five is about the finalconclusion which mainly concludes the same and different points on the conceptof life and death between Japanese and Chinese. By analysis, we know that Japanese is inclined to devote the lives becauseof humiliation, reputation and loyalty, but Chinese is for nation, justice,achievements and freedom. Japanese see the loyalty as the basic ethical rulesand devote the lives for emperor and hosts in majority, but Chinese traditionalconcept, is filial piety. And after the Song Dynasty, the filial piety becamethe loyalty that is kind of patriotism. So it is admitted that devoting thelives for the country, which is so different with Japanese loyalty for emperorand hosts. Because of being affected by the thought of devoting the lives foremperor and impermanence creed of Buddhism, Japanese can treat their livescalmly and keep calm for the avoidiess death. Whereas the thoughts of filialpiety and devoting the lives for loyalty on Confucianism and the rotatingconcept of life and death in Buddhism has affected Chinese deeply whichdetermines that Chinese concept of life and death is devoting the lives forthe country and justice.