| March |
Held the 8th seminar,
"Taoism and Japanese Culture" in Chichibu at
Chichibu Shrine. |
| |
Held the Shinto colloquim(lecture)
"Yasukuni behind the chrysanthemum curtain"
by Dr. John Breen at the Foreign Correspondents Club
of Japan in Tokyo. |
| May |
The Result of the Fifth
Shinto Essay Competition in China was announced and prizes
awarded. |
| June |
ISF donated a set of 121 volumes of
"Shinto Taikei" to the Department of East Asian
Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice,
Italy. Also held the workshop "Experiences in Japanese
religion". |
| July |
Held the Tanabata festival
in New York. |
| Held the Tea ceremony
by Mushakouji Senke in New York. |
| September |
Participated in the 56th
Annual DPI/NGO Conference at UN Headquarters in New York.
The middayworkshop "Rice is Life". |
| Held the "Autumn Chrysanthemum
Day & Moon Viewing Gathering" in New York. |
| Participated and cooperated in "The
Annual Interfaith Service of Commitment to the Work of
the UN". |
| The Result of the Shinto
Essay Competition 2004 was announced and prizes awarded. |
| October |
Held the
54th Shichigosan Ceremony for the World's Children
in New York commemorating the UN Children Day. |
| Participated the lecture
"神祭りの場の女性の姿をかいま見る" at Kyoto, Daikankiji, 京都市「大歓喜寺」中世日本研究所にて |
| Held the 2nd Shinto colloquim(lecture)
"Mutually Exclusive, either-or Values versus Mutually
Permeable, both-and Values With a brief commentary on
‘Henotheism’ as opposed to ‘Monotheism’ and ‘Polytheism’"
by Prof. Masao Kunihiro at the Foreign Correspondents
Club of Japan in Tokyo. |
| December |
Held the workshop "日本歴史における文化の変容"
at the national Oriental library in Moscow, Russia. |
