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Was the Edict for Compassion for Living Things Necessary for the Japanese? a New Assessment of the "Evil Law" that Corrected Ethics

When talking about Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the first thing that comes to mind is the Edict to Show Compassion for Living Things and the resulting nickname "Inu Koubou" (Dog Shogun). Dogs are important, and sometimes take precedence over people. Tsunayoshi is often criticized as if he had gone mad, but recently there has been a re-examination of the law, suggesting that far from being a bad law, it may have actually advanced Japanese ethics in a pos…
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When talking about Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the first thing that comes to mind is the Edict to Show Compassion for Living Things and the resulting nickname "Inu Koubou" (Dog Shogun). Dogs are important, and sometimes take precedence over people. Tsunayoshi is often criticized as if he had gone mad, but recently there has been a re-examination of the law, suggesting that far from being a bad law, it may have actually advanced Japanese ethics in a pos…

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BUSHOO!JAPAN(武将ジャパン) broke the news in on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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