Stuart Picken

Stuart Donald Blair Picken (1942 – 5 August 2016) was a Scottish philosopher, academic and cleric. He was a noted expert on comparative ethics and Japanese thought. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (gold rays with neck ribbon) by the government of Japan in recognition of his work.

From 1997 to 2004, he was the founding Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Asian Studies at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, and the founding Dean of the Graduate School Division of Global Business Communication from 2002 to 2004. He was married to Hongwen and had two children, a son and a daughter. He died at the age of 74 on 5 August 2016.

Works The Soul of an Orkney Parish:[South Ronaldsay and Burray] (1972) Shinto, Japan's Spiritual Roots (1980) Buddhism (1982) introduction by Edwin O. Reischauer Christianity and Japan: Meeting, Conflict, Hope (1983) introduction by Edwin O. Reischauer Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings (1994) Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth (2002) Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents (2004) Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business (2007) Historical Dictionary of Shinto (2010) Historical Dictionary of Calvinism (2011) Death in the Japanese Tradition (2016)