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Research Report on “Obon and Taboos Related to Water” in Hokkaido

Did people in Hokkaido really believe that entering the water during Obon meant a spirit would pull you under by the ankle? Here is what an online investigation can establish as fact, inference, or genuinely unknown — sorted the way water separates by clarity.

2026.08.14

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What Should a Critic Be Like? — A Tentative Essay on “Physiological Rigor,” Intrinsic Pathos, and the Relationship Between Intellect and Ethics —

An essay on “physiological rigor,” inborn pathos, and the relationship between intellect and ethics

2026.08.14

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The Human Science of Desire, Loneliness, and Commitment: From the Historical Evolution of Sexuality to the Structural Analysis of Psychological Maturity

From the changing shape of sex and love through history, to the self-destruction found in literature, to the actual structure of psychological maturity — why do people, even while pulled toward temptation, keep choosing to stay with one person?

2026.08.12

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Historical Changes and Structural Functions of “Marriage Institutions, the Household, Lineage, and Inheritance” in Japan: A Comprehensive Study Combining Legal History, Anthropology, Psychology, and Family Sociology

A history of two distinct concepts — marriage and the household — drawn through legal history, anthropology, psychology, and family sociology.

2026.08.10

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Behavioral Patterns in Public Spaces and a Multidimensional Understanding: An Integrated Analysis of Medicine, Psychology, Social Institutions, and Ethics

A look at atypical behavior in shared public spaces, and at how both the general public and the people affected can be understood — through medicine, psychology, social policy, and ethics.

2026.08.08

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The Anthropology of Symbols Engraved on the Body: A Multidisciplinary Study of Tattoos from the Perspectives of Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology

An Anthropology ofWhat We Carve Into SkinFlowers, feathers, dragons, serpents, sacred script, skulls — what has humanity been etching into its own skin, and why? A cross-disciplinary look through anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

2026.08.07

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A Comparative Study of the Phenomenon of Object Damage and Life Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Religion, Mythology, Psychology, Anthropology, Divination, and Science

Crossing religion, mythology, psychology, anthropology, divination, and science to ask why we find meaning in the moment something breaks.

2026.07.26

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A Multifaceted Analysis of Alcohol-Mediated Communication: Psychosocial Vulnerability, Neurobiological Mechanisms, and Clinical Intervention Models

The feeling that you "can't talk without a drink" is not a matter of preference. It's a complex psychobiological phenomenon woven from personality, attachment style, and the brain's own neurotransmitters.

2026.07.23

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An Empirical Analysis of Self-Esteem and Mental Health Among Demisexual and Demiromantic Individuals

Attraction that only emerges once a strong emotional bond has formed — what psychological effect does this shifted timing have on the people who experience it? Here is where the empirical research currently stands, and what remains unresolved.

2026.07.21

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors in Human Food Preferences and Food Allergies

Neither "picky eating" nor a food allergy is a matter of willfulness or constitution in some vague sense. Both trace back to a blueprint written in DNA, and to epigenetics — the way environment rewrites how genes are expressed. This piece follows that dual thread from taste receptors down to the gut microbiome, as far as current research allows.

2026.07.19

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