Floating it away
Thomas Crump, 7 October 1993
Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan
by William LaFleur.
Princeton, 252 pp., £24.95, January 1993,0 691 07405 4 Show More
by William LaFleur.
Princeton, 252 pp., £24.95, January 1993,
“... operate it. Both Buddhism and abortion flourish in modern Japan: the link between them is death. William LaFleur explains how this has come about, and in doing so provides an unusual insight into the character of modern Japan, where death is a big-money operation both for medicine and for religion. The questions to be considered are: what sort of death ... ”
