is a Japanese

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 freelance writer.

Hirohito is a researcher of Japanese graves and missionary history in South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

 with a focus on Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. He was the Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 editor for the Japanese-language Peru newspaper Peru Shinpō. He graduated from Kokugakuin University

Kokugakuin University

Kokugakuin University is a private university, whose main office is located in Tokyo's Shibuya district...

 with a degree in Shintō

Shinto

or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...

 studies. Present studies are devoted to Suika Shintō, a branch of Shintō developed by Yamazaki Ansai

Yamazaki Ansai

was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi. He combined Neo-Confucian ideas with Shinto to create Suika Shinto.-Early Years/Buddhism:...

, religious sociality, and religious activities of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

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Many of his articles deal with those of Japanese Peruvian decent, Japanese Buddhism, Peruvians in Japan and active funeral in Japan.

Publications

• Sōtōshū Jion-ji (perū kyōwakoku) ihai list
• Shirarezaru Nihonjin
• Nombres en japonés - Nihongo no Namae

See also

• Jionji