Introduction.- Part I: Japan -- A Land on the Edge of the World.- Chapter 1: Travelling in Silence -- an attempt for cultural-anthropological reading of the Japanese kokoro.- Chapter 2: Silence Takes Shape -- the birth of the Japanese psychotherapies.- Part II: The Sun Rising at the Gate.- Chapter 3: Morita Therapy -- Chopping Wood, Carrying Water. Life Happens.- Chapter 4: Naikan Therapy -- Memento mori.- Chapter 5: Dohsa-hou Therapy -- Where Body Meets Soul.- Part III: Into the Depths: Silence Beneficial, Silence Torturing.- Chapter 6: The Will for Rising up -- A Case Study at a Summer Dohsa-hou Camp.- Chapter 7: Tortured Bodies, Tortured Souls -- Fieldwork Research on Written Naikan among Drug-Addicted Bulgarians.- Chapter 8: 'Then go and wash your rice bowl!' -- Personal Experiences in Morita Therapy.- General Conclusion: Representative Japanese Psychotherapies in a Nutshell.- Appendix I -- Morita Therapy.- Appendix II -- Naikan Therapy.- Appendix III -- Dohsa-hou Therapy.