The Concifucianism in Japan and in Vietnam: Some Comparative Points

Abstract

The East Asia has an ancient history and has created many typical values that immortalized, though the vicissitudes of history. The Confucianism is one of these values. Crossing over the Chinese border, Confucianism arrived Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, which formed a Confucian cultural region. However, the Confucianism was selected and adapted to each culture where it penetrated. Thus, it created Vietnamese Confucianism, Korean Confucianism, and Japanese Confucianism. This article compares the homogeneity and the difference between the Confucianism in Vietnam and in Japan in the aspect of structure, nature, and process of introducing in order to identify the diversity and the unity of the East Asia’s typical values and the vitality of the Confucianism in these countries.