Abstract
After the defeat of the World War II, did the Japanese sociology have an alternative ? Until the student revolution there had not been such an alternative. Then, appeared countercultures, which comprised communes, rock music, identity politics and drug culture. The drug culture soon evolved into oriental religions, which criticized the Western reason or rationality. Many liberal sociologists who had supported the student power could not evaluate the impact of this radical criticism properly.
An authentic evaluation came from the camp of the orthodox sociology. Professor Kazuo Aoi had investigated a variety of the streamlined sociological theories. He cast doubt on such western-originated theories, because they couldn't be the fundamental basis of the epistemology of sociology. He found the new grounds in Zen, by which a sociologist or a man can always return to the origin of meanings.
Aoi's efforts are very valuable, but they are confined in some ways, for his theory is centered only on the epistemology of sociology. Now it is the ontology of sociology that we really need. I think we can find this vital ontology by passing through Zen to Gi Gong. Against superficial understanding of it as a kind of mystic religion, Gi Gong can be the fundamental grounds of the new sociology.
