2016年12月1日木曜日

Why Japanese people cannot resist against the dirty power?

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ´∀`)

As most of you know, the people resistant for President Keunae Park has spreaded out to entire South Korean Peninsula. People have risen to resignation of jobbery and their relations.

In Japan, Abe cabinet and Nippon Kaigi have been doing all the robberies, dirty jobs, illegal casino open, and the pension cut, but, very few shows their anger on the steamrollers again and again.

There are several reasons happen on the series of reaction as the silent majority.

One reason is any individual opinion has been ignored since their childhood during their courses of education in Japan. A former school teacher told me that the school and classes move by mood. It is worthless effort for a teacher to change the mood once it become dull and down.

The mood(kooki in Japanese) is sensitively controlled by few administrative members "not admit any one teacher nor student be cheeky or resist against administrator".  Saying any individual opinion in public is judged wrong in this nation. Students with autism are concerned as troublesome social problem since autism kids and adults are generally not good at sense the mob psychological movement.

I see frightened eyes in many children while they show fake smile toward adults. It is very hard for an ordinary Japanese how deep they had been brain-washed by the Japanophilosophy that the Japanese are worth to become the top of the world family under the Japanese Emperor even His Highness deny to be so.

Most of Japanese get anger without knowing any obvious reason by oneself if anyone point on how deep one's personality have been depressed by public brain-wash for life long.

The other reason is Japan is the one of few nation which haven't had any historical incident to resist against different ethnical group or nation since 5th century when Yamato Dynasty had settled in Nara.

The geographic location of Japan is too  galapagos in the whole earth.

Japan is isolated far from the Southern Pacific Islands of Philippine, Mindanao, Guam and Hawai.  And the marine current flow from the Asian continent mainly from China and Korean Peninsula to Japan along with seasonable winds.  Anyone who refuged from the Asian continent by some reason may end up in Japan or died in the Pacific ocean until sailing vessel class boat was invented.

If any refugee miss landing on Japan, or drawn away to the Pacific Ocean toward Hawai by seasonable winds or typhoon, the ancient boats were drown somewhere not far away from Japan.

The opposite was true. It was very difficult to go to Korean Peninsula from Japan until about 14th century. Navigation technology against the marine current and seasonable winds was too risky even Yamato Dynasty were so enthusiastic to learn the new political and social science along with linguistics and culture.

It means that there's no other ethnical group nor aliens in the walk or a row distance from Japan. Since 16th century, Japanese are puzzled and refused to learn how to build up the relationship with other ethnical or religious groups.

Fumie, a touchstone for Christians during Edo  Period.
All the Christians are forced to tread on the Jesus and  Holy Mother.

But, above isn't the only reason to be brain-washed so easily.

Many Japanese people are very weak for emotionally evil suggestions, and fall into one side assumption. Once one fall into the assumption, then he or she start to make up the causes, reasoning and logics along with emotional assumption with hate discrimination feeling.

Since most of Japanese self-esteem stops at the co-dependent for life, it will be a key to let brain-washed person get burst one's anger being brain-washed to get rid of co-dependence.

Christian hate is mare heel actor on Japanophilosophical brain-wash. And psychiatrical care, counseling and care will be needed for in case of further needs.

An old woman in the weekly spiritual retreat told me that the social pressure against Christian is getting so strong, that she can even feel the Christian hate mood even though she has very few people to meet who aren't our parish member.

It's the fact. Some Japanese Christians may need to go overseas for evangelic journey due to persecution while others would die in peace in Christ.

2016年11月19日土曜日

Christian Hate Media Report: Media Caving On Catholic Facilities

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ◠‿◠ )

There were two cases of official caving for Catholic facilities in last two months.

Flowers for memorial in Yamayuri-en
One was related with a mass murder of severe handicapped in Yamayuri-En in Sagamihara. Satoshi Uematsu, a suspect's name was not specified on the wikipedia in Japanese. Satoshi Uematsu had sent two letters to the Ohshima speaker of the House of Representatives and PM Shinzo Abe to murder those seriously handicapped for social mercy. He also wrote that "I will start murdering those who uselessly having hard time with complexed handicaps, so please give me an amnesty by two years in jail". 

Japanese government had never show any deplore on what Uematsu wrote to Shinzo Abe via Oshima. Uematsu seemed to have a psychopath character originally, but not had any diagnosis 
to psychological deceases.

I read many comments to praise Uematsu as a hate hero to murder socially useless! And LDP, government and Nippon Kaigi had never deny those extreme right as hate speech even anti-hate speach law had already become a force before Sagamihara mass murder. 

So, Nippon Kaigi focused to acused St. Marianne Hospital which gave a official designation of mental health diagnosis(an official psychiatrist who judge the judicial condition for suspect and/or doubted to occure criminal action) without going through required number of cases individually. 

I don't think it happened only in Kanagawa prefecture, nor only in St. Marianne Hospital. The cause it happened was too few psychiatrists with official status holding too many cases to take care of. And as it is generally true in the psychiatric treatment, the treat and councilling take more time for each patient, therefore more psychiatrist is needed. 

However, MHLW and media hadn't expand the check for other hospitals, but accused only St. Marianne Hospital repeatedly.

And second on is a troublesome student harmed two fellow students and a teacher by a little knife in a high school class room in Gyousei Gakuen High School, which belongs to Jesuit. 

And the Japanese media tortured on the knife fight happened in Christian high school so loudly more than several days. 

As one parent of University student, a knife fight is just a worth to unlimited suspension cases happen  in any high school. Having survival knifes as in the RPG game is very often in high schools of all level. And there are so few Catholic students in Gyousei Gakuen, for Gyousei is one of the most high level school in Tokyo.

While there are so many cases reported that students become Hikikomori or commit suicide by ignorance of educational council, homeroom teacher and their students, knife incident isn't worth to become "public news".    

It means the media is so strictly controlled by Nippon Kaigi and PM Abe ministry. 

Kanagawa prefecture seems to being a special target to puffed off to hatred for minority, handicapped, and Catholic members. 

The grass-root sect way is sometimes really damp. Several days ago, a nursery facility managed by "Raphael" occurred an abuse. I've checked the website of "Raphael", and the owner had say no a word related with Christianity. And "Raphael" is the name of the Bishop of Yokohama dioceses! 

Nippon Kaigi, the grass-root sect never say anything clear, but "make-up some bad mood or hate mood on Catholics and Christians" is their favorite method. 

I'm not really sure why Nippon Kaigi seemed to target Kanagawa prefecture especially than other prefectures. If there's any reason for that, three US bases and one supply base are in Kanagawa, which is second largest next to Okinawa. 

I'm worried if any of Catholic members in Japan who are weak but serious become their sacrifice to make persecution mood in the grass-root way. 

Pray for us Catholics and Christians in Japan. 






2016年11月12日土曜日

Christinitian-Hate Reference: Christianity denies "nature"?

Hi! It's Shellill Linn.( ^∀^)

The majority of Japanese even intellectually excellent get confused with understanding the "nature" in Christianity.

According to the modern Japanophilosophy since 19th century, the virtue concept of "Japan" contains the most simple term of truth without inviting social confusion, conflict and contest without asking religious practice except those who belong to certain clan to do the religious practice as a group representative.

Those who aren't responsible for practicing religious prayers and rituals shall not be responsible for the result of those spiritual practice. That's why Japanese after WWII generation don't have pacific interest on religious practice.

Most of ordinary Japanese religious authority say"oh, you can belong to whatever you're now. You don't have to think about whether converting to our religious authority!".

Hence it is very sensitive term to convert the religion in Japan even though no family member know exactly what flow of temple do he or she really belong to. The conversion is really sensitive just because majority of Japanese never really know anything about the temple or the shrine a family have a tomb.

So, the conversion itself makes feel ordinary Japanese people "forced" to do something although most of them don't have any religious faith in any way, hence the term of conversion bring in a small group or family unbearable conflict, contest and contradiction.

Second reason Japanese people accuse on Christianity is "denying the Japanese style eroticism".

During Edo period, people generally didn't have right to immigrate or just move in and out freely. They lived under very strict Kimono dress code that some wealthy merchants were executed in public due to dressed like a princess and high clan Samurai with an actress hair style. There were gates in every corner you walk in Edo(present Tokyo), and had a security check whenever one crosses a bridge here to there. Religious conversion was generally prohibited and being NON CHRISTIAN was the symbol of sameness under Tokugawa tyranny.

Erotic literature, poems, picture book like manga and all kinds of sex was the only safety valve people could "enjoy" during Edo period. Although committing adultly was worth death penalty,  "double suicide" committed by prohibited lovers were the true idol.  There were variety of double suicide...poor young man and rich girl, Oiran a caged courtesan and a customer, even a page and young land lord were really committed day by day all over Japan.

So, Japanese erotic standard is too rude for the majority of cultural evaluation system. But, Japanese have been very hostile to Christianity especially because missionaries swear the concentrated chastity which denies the erotic standard in Japan.

Many Japanese get lost when they see so many Christian enjoy sex, some even enjoy prostitute or rape in some rude case, but missionaries teaches "to keep your chastity".

The dissociation of reality and the ideal should be "case by case" individual trouble, but no general teaching exist for majority of Japanese just because the general teaching might occure conflict, contest and contradiction inside of one Japanese individual as well as Japanese society.

According to Japanophilosophy, any kind of public opinion which bring in the great conflict, contest, challenge and contradiction is concerned as something evil.  So, Christian thinking brings in the conflict and contradiction between eroticism, sex and chastity according to Japanese Galapagos evaluation system.

Japanese are generally lack of coming over the conflict, contest and contradiction generally. Japanese generally do their every effort to avoid three C's...conflict, contest and contradiction in inside Japan, because majority of Japanese think that if something great cannot take responsibility by itself, Japanese have to repent all the responsibility by death penalty.

Now, it is severer threat for this planet if Nippon Kaigi would really aim to commit suicide with 55 atomic plants in island nation called Japan on the three continental plate borders. Right now, Nippon Kaigi has been just being blind for their grass root sinister. But, now they slowly started to feel there's  not much things they can do to solve Fukushima crisis and troubles in other atomic energy plants.

It is very difficult to let majority of Japanese understand that anybody on this planet can never fully avoid three Cs living on this planet. But, to keep Nippon Kaigi or similar cults' pride being "universal Japanese", Nippon Kaigi might do anything to hide what is really going on in this nation until extinguish all the living Japanese who haven't had chance to run away from this critical situation.

I feel awful threat might become true. Suicide toll is rising every single day. In Tokyo area for example, there's no single day goes on without "train accident" caused by jumping in.

"If I die now, I don't have to go to Dentsu after my death" was a last word of a young woman who committed suicide and recently became big news by her mother's effort to set Dentsu on the court.

She'd never thought  on "I'd be free if I die".  She was just too worn out and tired.

I've been trying my best to let Japanese people understand the non-existence of the universal Japanese   as well as other people from different approach. But, we really need in help to move those political and economical puppets closer to Nippon Kaigi.



2016年10月27日木曜日

Christian-Hate Reference: "Good" and "Bad" depends on the definition

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ◠‿◠ )

Now, we begin with the mis-leading Japanese translation ver. of "Anti-Christ" written by Friedrich Nietzsche.

In the first Chapter, Tekina define "goodness" as "the intention and emotion raise the power and/or make power powerful by itself". For Tekina the power of the time is always "good".

This kind of logics have been deep rooted since Tokugawa Tycoon had strictly limited the diplomatic relationship to let not foreign affairs bother the domestic politics. At the beginning of Tokugawa Era,  Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first Shogun would temporary limit the diplomatic relationship since he was too old to settle his planned authorities of Tokugawa government to finish up the War Era(Sengoku) confusion.

During Edo period,  "the powerful authority=Tokugawa Shugunate is good" was stenciled deeply into entire nation by public execution for warning so often.

When Meiji renewal raise by Satsuma(present Kagoshima), and Choshu(present Yamaguchi, the home land of PM Abe) painted over to "the winner is the right sovereignty, the looser is the rebellions".

So, Tekina translated the Bad in "anti-Christ" is "being weak, being looser".  So Tekina says if weeks drop out the society, push one's back forward (to desperate) by the name of humanity. Wow, his logic might make you vomit, but this logic is the main cause for high percentage of suicides in Japan.

Then Tekina says the Christianity is the religion of sympathy to weakness, which the good power should exterminate the bad weakness. Maybe Hitler will love this logic if he's alive!

By Tekina's translation, human being cannot become anyone valuable than one settled in whether a good side or bad side. But, western philosophers such as Aristotle to Schopenhauer misunderstood the original sin in Christian theological term is the prerequisite to discuss the humanity.

And then Tekina interpreted that the goddesses cannot be alway good=powerful, but goddesses need to have bad=weakness.

According to this referendum, truth exist the number of ethnological groups, and truth differs depends on each ethnological group. And the duty, ethics, right, justice and goodness are all depends on the each domestic groups.

Around here, his logics jump over that the monotheism=Christianity. Although he made some comments on Muslim world is also monotheism, and ignored Judaism or all other monotheism include the sun worship in traditional Japanese faith(Otentosan faith).  He clearly affirmed that the monotheism=Christianity is evil and false in all the religion in this world.

The important point for our reader isn't Tekina is mare radio commentator.  But, the point is Tekina had honestly written the exactly same logics there had been under WWII dictatorship.

Now, since the logic of good and bad is defined by the faceless nameless bureaucrats and group of dictators in "good group" at the time, Japanological religion, or Nippon Kaigi's religious base don't have any root in any kind of Japanese tradition nor any kind of traditional faith.

So, if non-Japanese try to let Japanese understand something by logical explanatory with good advice, Japanese sneak away from your logics for the logics cannot melt into there feelings. So, if you know a bite of good and bad definition of the Nippon Kaigi, Japanese government, beaurocrates  and ordinary people's root, you can add a bite of vinegar and sugar along with your logics.

There're always someone weak in Japanese society is depressed who knows truth but its too worthless knowing it. You can find that weak one with inside information and help the weak ones with sincerely  kindness.

Sometimes, bad=weak side ones are weak in Japan only, but generally concerned as strong or talented in out of Japan. Making weak Japanese the most influential in out of Japan, it might move the near weak majority to get out of their desperate being weak side.

So, we now are quite far away from Nietzsche's historical piece.

Since the powerful are always in fear and anxiety, try not to stimulate those sensitive dictators, and helping raise of the weak in out of Japan is one way I can offer you as a hand to give proper information from out of Japan.





2016年10月23日日曜日

Christian-Hate Reference: Mis-leading ver. of "Anti-Christ"

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ◠‿◠ )

It took weeks to get well from my throat ache and a reference book which may be helpful to understand how Nippon Kaigi have been working out a farsighted scheme to restraint the increase of Christians in Japan since 1970th.
It's been in my mind that I need to find an issued book reference which shows Nippon Kaigi's permanent discriminative stance for Christianity, Catholics & traditional Christians.

"The Edict Against Christian" Rule had been on the  every street corner  until 1873.
Several weeks ago, I've accidentally found a book "The Christianity is the false teaching" which was entitled as the modern translation of "Anti-Christ" written by Friedrich Nietzsche.

The translator claim himself as a philosopher, Osamu Tekina, whose name seems pen name. His present job is not certain after he graduated from Waseda University majored Nietzsche in the philosophy course. His pen name probably means "not good, not bad, so so".

According to the internet search, his present official job is a writer  and "one of many"  commentator in early morning radio program called "Ohayo Tera-chan". According to the program official website,  Tekina is the one of many commentator live on some Friday, 6:10a.m.  The right-wing paper, Sankei likely to show  Tekina's comment rarely.  Since there're so many movies on YOU TUBE of his radio talk, he's trying to promote himself although his comments were evaluated as "too low level" "always same-same theory" by most of young 2 ch bulletin board writers.

I can classify his writing to two types; classify, divide, and self-torturing type writing praising "elites are the only and the best" "the middle class are troublesome" and the Christianity & Christian, and racial hate books.

Critical thing I've felt was a man who claims "I'm a philosopher" type childish book is issued from Kodansha, one of the most famous scholastic and business paper back publisher. There has to be someone with power behind him not only supporting him economically, but, someone who can make Kodansha issue this kind of "hate book" on 2005.

Let me introduce you some extreme "translation" of Tekina on the cover belt:

Defendant: Christianity is guilty.
I'd ask for the most sever charge to the defendant as no other accuser had ever done before. There's nothing decayed fully as much as Christianity is.

Christianity makes everything around the world soured.  Christianity fabricates the invaluable out of truly valuable, lier from truth, nastiness out of honestness. If you would still want to talk about the blessing of humanity through Christian Church, just go ahead and do it.
Christian Church has been prolonged as it has been taken mean advantage of weakness of human being.
More over, Christian church has been creating all the misfortune to make its authority eternal.

Since late 19th century until II Vatican Council, So many non-Christians, Jewish, all kinds of Christians even novices in convents, monasteries, and the theologists had shouted out the booing calls for renewal.

At that era, Nietzsche wasn't the only one who criticized the way Catholic church had been hence the Trient Council's fresh air had become dull and mean after Jansenismus had risen and "poisoned" the Catholic Church in Pharisees' way.

Most of Japanese people would never understand what has been going on in the rest of the world except "Japan" the small world. And Nippon Kaigi has been trying to brainwash all Japanese to convince with their fanatic ideal.

Ironically, most of Japanese were devoted into  Chrisitian-Hate mood so easily until Shinzo Abe become well-known as the biggest sponsor of  cult-Christianity, and as an important member of Nippon Kaigi through the internet. It must be some influence from young generation who never concern oneself as a Buddhist. Heisei(1989-present) young ones  began to ask "why we have to hate Christianity? Is there any reason doing so?" after they become old enough to have doubt on elder generations.

I think it was the remarkable turning point when the extreme right wing movers have begun to wave the Star Spangle Banner along with Japanese flag and marched and demonstrated "Viva right!!".

Nippon Kaigi right wing demonstration divided and scattered Yamaguchigumi Yakuza,  and triggered the historical declaration of NO-MORE-UYOKU(extreme right wing in Japanese)  by some  Issuikai, the most traditional extreme right wing group leaders during 2014-2015.

Nippon Kaigi is still trying to utilize Tekisai's Christian-Hate theory, for it is very convenient use the THE ETERNAL ENEMY is there, so Japanese have right to be tempered to strike out the ENEMY!

Hence Nippon Kaigi is trying to mix in a part of Tekisai's Christian-Hate theory into the World History school textbook which need to pass the official verification ethical code settled by MEXT(the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).

I'll briefly go on this reference  to represent some tips and ideas how non-Japanese can approach and make those Galapagos Japanese keep sit on the necessary discussion and negotiation table with information opened both for inbound and outbound although the Japanese language is another piece of iron cookie you bite.

There are 55 atomic plants include Fukushima One which have been discharging radioactive poisoned  water to the pacific ocean, but the information access is very limited for the majority of Japanese who're aware of the fact, or have information access in non-Japanese language.

City area train stops so often by "sudden fall out" "emergency" and "suicide".  And, monster class typhoon and the swarm earthquake in west Japan area shows how dangerous canary Japan is for this planet.

If all 55 atomic plants become out of control in this land, the whole world will be polluted by collapse of Japan.

It's not just the crisis of Christianity. And ordinary unawared Japanese popular mood might be the toughest wall the world face to.

I'd still cross to the hope.




 



2016年10月7日金曜日

Historical Fantasy Over the Nippon Kaigi Cabinet

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

While I've been searching for some materials for my novel writing, I've found a series of "up date secret history books" regarding the end of Edo Period to early Meiji Era(about 1830-1880).

Those books have issued from several different publishers, but, all of them are the grassroot autority members of Nippon Kaigi.

Hence anyone in the world can buy those books written in Japanese language in Amazon.com , I'd just take a brief note on their "preferable historical view".

Maybe most of journalist believe that Nippon Kaigi would re-built the Meiji Constitution world, under "the goddess Emperor" as it had once been before the WWII.

Since the Emperor Akihito made a historical speech on "abdication before his death" and "the crown his successor Prince Norihito as the symbolic Emperor" this summer, Nippon Kaigi had done reprisal shuffling for those who allowed or agreed  "His Highness" to speak out unfavorable speech.

Emperor Akihito's will is as following:

1) He's old enough to retire from symbolic Emperor.
2)In case he dies as the Emperor, the course of mourning rituals, memorial feasts which takes several years to go over will be too heavy burden for his successor. It will cost so much for national budget also. If he dies as "retired Emperor", the mourning will be done all by Imperial Shinto priests mainly in the palace mainly.
3) Hence he's the symbolic Emperor, it is not necessary to let the crown prince to become the regent, because symbolic Emperor don't commit with any "actual politics".

Emperor Akihito probably studied a lot on the honor pontiff Benedictus XVI, for he may seek professional advisors on this matter for Empress Michiko graduated from Sacred Heart Women University,  one of the most famous Catholic women University in Tokyo.

Nippon Kaigi has been preparing the "secret true history" on  the Imperial successor.

According to Nippon Kaigi members, the South Imperial power had given up the secret mirror, sword and the comma-shaped bead to North Imperial power in 14th century is the faked story.

South Imperial power have been hidden in for centuries, according to Nippon Kaigi history. It's just like as if King Arthur's successor have been hidden somewhere for centuries! Impossible to identify who's who in this long history.

Nippon Kaigo also claim that their respectful guru, Masaharu Taniguchi's guru, Onisaburo Ideguchi is the secret successor of Emperor Komei who'd probably assasignated by Meiji government fundamentalists.

Hence Nao Ideguchi, the establishment guru of Omoto sect was a literate farmer, supported by the public for she was accepted as "common people's guru" in folk Shintoism. So, it is non-sense to have any chance for her to meet the crown prince or the Emperor.

 Emperor had always  sat behind many silk shades whenever he meet someone except his family and upper court ladies who had allowed to stay in his dark chamber. At that time, no one really know the Emperor's face even in the palace!

 During Edo period, most of Emperors had almost no chance to go out of a small palace in Kyoto. They even hadn't have right to his palace garden or go out of palace to do the ancestral worship when he deserve to do so.

Nippon Kaigi seems to trying to replace the present crown prince to "Nippon Kaigi recommended prince" in the expected confusion occurred by the sick, death, and the enthronement of the crown prince.

I see a lot of writing and rumors how the crown prince and princess is disqualified, or denial opinion on "crown princess" written by " not identical handle name person".

According to the fantastic historical view of Nippon Kaigi, the sect belief which has no traditional bases, public support nor popularity will seize over Japan as Kim dynasty have done in North Korea.

If Japan become a dictated nation almost same style as North Korea, the entire earth environment will  be endangered by the radioactive pollution caused not only by Fukushima One, but many other atomic power plants on the local faults which on the three continental shelves.

Not just Japan will ruin herself, but cause the world-wide radioactive pollution problem due to earthquakes which unavoidable in this area.

Most of Japanese feel worthless and almost no self-esteem to "think by oneself". Most of them are not totally brainwashed, but, strong co-dependent mentality of common Japanese try to find their mental easiness in "be blind, and make someone weak isolated or independent a heel, so he'll be safe".

Nippon Kaigi is trying their best to purge bureaucrats, LDP member to make their fantastic dream come true without any rational political policy except "HIDE THE FACT! MAKE THE WORLD BLIND!".




 

2016年9月15日木曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: No Check on Missionary ID?

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ^_^)/~~~

I've checked a HP of Nippon Kaigi recently, the rightest wing cultic "civil group" which would never intend to register themselves as a religious authority. 

Nippon Kaigi claims that "we are corporative civil activist group which corporate with all kinds of religious groups, such as Jinja-Honcho(Shinto Central Government office), Soka-Gakkai, Science of Happiness and Christianity such as Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, which is the cult Christianity originated in South Korea.

Nippon Kaigi became so sensitive for it is accused as a "cult group" by so many writers since the spring 2016 in Japan.  

Nippon Kaigi has been working so hard over the internet. 

The provider I use for Japanese blog began to refuse the htlm code with my message "Mormons, Jehova's Witness, Unification Church(the Korean cult Church established by Moon Sunmyoen concerned as the sect Christianity in Japan) and the Shincheonji Church are not Christian Church" is automatically rejected since last month. 

Majority of Japanese common people are not familiar with religious activity in their day to day living. For most of Japanese, religious custom is the sub-title to have a dinner gathering with families and relatives. 

Although the ancestral worship is the major religion in Japan, there are very few family visit their family tomb on the seasons such as Obon(similar to halloween), and Higan(a week to visit family tomb on Spring & Autumn). 

I've heard that the housewife alone goes to the family tomb without her husband and their children. Young people are not interested in ancestral worship. Since Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism don't require any religious studies nor the entering ritual to join with belief, young people usually don't have any chance to know their "household traditional belief". 

So religion-less youngsters are good target for cultic religion. And the Japanese government and immigration office seems to intend "not to check the Missionary ID" strictly. 

I've heard that so many Catholic convents, monasteries had accepted a temporary stay without checking the Missionary ID, just because "no one really expect to be cheated by faked missionary in Japan". 

The permanent visa issue is so strict for most of Catholic convents and monasteries in Japan. So many document works and a Japanese guarantee is always required to extend visa even for a foreign priest who'd been decades without any trouble. 

Once there were "WANTED" poster in our parish for so called "bishop of Apostolic Catholic Church" a episcopal sect originated in Philippine. This bishop really visited our parish wearing a "bishop chasubles in the quiet residential street in a local town!

Please pray for those weak, handicapped, and missionaries from overseas.



2016年9月10日土曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: Japanoreligion As The Mixed "Best Of bits and bites"

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(^_^)

The most miserable misunderstanding in Japanese people is "Japanoreligion is the most generous, the sincerest  and the most  kind-hearted in the world".

No. In fact, majority of Japanese people are so narrow minded, and eager to reject and condemnate the Christianity, Muslim and Jewish belief.

It started in the beginning of Tokugawa tyranny on about mid 17th century. To make Tokugawa Shogunate sustainable with limited trade with rest of the world without bothered by the diplomatic matter, Shogunate dynasty issued so many stories of "anti-Christian guidebook" called Haiya-sho.

It said that the Catholic priest is the evil magician who perform all kinds of magic to get a person alive and act like Ninja. The Ninja myth was enforced by Rev. Jihyoe Kintsuba, who once was trained as Ninja in his childhood became a Jesuit priest later on.

Headless Arhats had thrown away in the deep mountain during the Buddhism Persecution In Early Meiji Era
In mundane interpretation, "trinity" is understood as "three different things functions like a one body" in Japan.

The trinity concept has been so favorable in Japanese politics, hence those three part had never functioned as "one body".

During Tokugawa tyranny, three clans of Tokugawa had been the whirlpool of political strife for three centuries. Therefore the direct samurai, soldiers of Tokugawa and the suburb landlords and their vessels and their local samurais had been trying to find the negotiation point somewhere around.

Meiji government had brought in the Japanese interpreted trinity to the main teaching to "the official Imperial Shintoism".

According to the Meiji government, the Emperor of Japan is the head of family called "NIPPON" and their governors, nobles and bureaucrats beneath the Emperor, and all the common people beneath the rulers should sacrifice their life as the "babies(SEKISHI)" of the Emperor.

Meiji Imperialists thought this cultic theory will form the reformed Shintoism by teaching hence they thought the common people are all fool enough to be cheated.

Actually, their theory hadn't do anything good as the religious force, for the reformed Shintoism hadn't had any traditional base underneath.

Except few people in Osaka and Kyoto area, most of common people in Japan didn't know "what is the Emperor" or "where the Emperor appeared from".

There had been local polytheism religion which is the mixed shamanistic religion of Shinto and Buddhism goddesses. And there was no god called "Emperor" in local belief or mountain pilgrimage belief.

After Meiji government enforced Shrines, temples and other worship places to distinguish and divide Shinto goddesses and local Buddhas and arsats during Buddhism persecution. Many Buddhism statues were sold, broken and thrown away.

Even the famous five-stair pagoda in Kofukuji temple in Nara was once on auction sale in less than 8000 Euro in the modern monetary base.

For Japanoreligion leaders, the trinity is the most convenient distorted term to sum up the whole nation "in oneness".

They are so eager to hide the bits and bites Japanoreligous theory is lone "galapagos" theory which is mean, unkind and isolated.

Most of foreigners never mention on the "closed Japanese mind",hence Japanese people basically don't talk about their true feeling to others.

Many foreigners guess "maybe something traditional in the Japanoreligion which foreigners cannot understand". Just like non-Jewish cannot exactly understand the Jewish belief.

Actually, except fantastic cultic people, the majority of Japanese people don't know how to explain why their spirits are so empty after all.

I personally told to quite believing in Christianity until I really awake in my faith. People I've met said "there will be someone wise enough to teach you the right way". But, I've never ever met anyone who is clever and faithful enough to explain "what to believe in Japanoreligion?".

Their theories are mainly why non-Japanoreligion is bad and evil. And their explanatory goes into abstract fantastic words which is ten times fancier than the RPG game story.

Hence their theories are on the sand in the straw house, Christians have been their good target to persecute on for generations.

Please pray for us.

 







2016年9月5日月曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: Typical Japanophilosophical criticism toward Christianity

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.( ^ω^ )

Japanology isn't easy "religion" to understand, since it doesn't have a religious roots based on the faithful activity. Japanological religion is based on blaming any "made up enemy" in the closed Japanese society.

I'd like to pick up an example from a blog and a counter blog content which both are concerned as "Christian blog" in Japan.

The person called "Shalom" introduced the common thought for Genesis22:1-19. The story on God asked Abraham to give his loveliest son, Issac to test Abraham's faith is enough to be a fundamental father in the early old testament.

Following is the basic content of the Shalom's concern.

Abraham must had deeply suffered when heavenly Father asked him to give his only son, Isaac, who was the gifted by three angels who visited his home. 

Abraham didn't discuss this matter with his wife, old Sarah. I(Shalom) concern that Abraham had felt guilty and regret that Abraham had already have a son with an Egyptian maiden Hagal. Abraham had really loved and cared Sarah as God cares Abraham.

Abraham was fully obedient to our Lord, even it was truly painful cross to him. 

Abraham had to sacrifice himself as our Christ sacrificed himself on the cross. The three days of crucified days to take his loveliest son, Isaac. 

When Abraham's heart was totally broken, the mercy and the grace of our Lord is shown. 

May peace of our Lord with us!

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/jordan_nobita/27670749.html

And the following content is the counter blog for "Shalom" on "Blog of Satoshi Toda, the land of lier and the religion".

He wrote a blog claims only the pain of Abraham, and praise his obedience toward the God's order, and concern "it's a faith". I really doubt on the characteristic of Mr. Shalom, for he never be suspicious on his faith without feeling any doubt.

…A person who can kill his son by God's order, will not hesitate to kill others by any kind of order. The type of belief as above seems do as the God's order, and that's the only way of salvation, then only psychopath are saved in the Christianity. 

For Mr. Shalom, God's order is absolute, and never claim and do as God's order, …for him, faith include to kill a man by God's order absolutely "YES".

Long time ago, a man who murdered the Jewish prime minister said "I killed him by God's order".
 
In our time, this type of "absolute faith" is concerned as "God's order" is going on a wild rampage. (The monotheisms) are not just similar, but substantially same, I think. Mr. Shalom is shouting on his blog based on maybe deeply involved with Biblical teaching, although the murder against the humanity and devoted obedience to the God!
 


I  beg you. Please never ever believe this kind of belief

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/st5402jp/18705296.html

Let's examine the ideology of Mr. Toda. He concerns "being obedient for our Lord" is misunderstood as "involving injustice or illegality" by his sense.

It means for Mr. Toda, all kind of monotheism "God" especially Christianity is basically injustice and something illegal although the constitution article 20th of Japan guarantee the religious freedom. 

We, Japanese Christians hear a similar tone opinion to Mr. Toda in elsewhere. Christians try to say about the love, mercy and forgiveness of God, but these "counter discriminators" would never hear our voice. 

Catholic Kaminoshima Church in Goto Islands in Nagasaki
Christians are less than 1% of the entire Japanese population, and there are so many to blame Christians are "violent and maybe something so bad". 

Mr. Toda may had read the after story that our Lord grant Abraham to be a fundamental father in the Genesis. 

After Abraham took son Isaac to the Lord's Mountain, there was Lord's word, and blessed Abraham's faith for God's love, peace, mercy and grace as everybody knows. And told Abraham to be a fundamental father to be the prophet of God.

Maybe Mr. Toda hadn't understand a word of the conclusion. But this part of the Bible verse was convenient to criticize the Christianity.

As many Christian and Catholic bloggers, many are passionated in evangelisticall mission of the word of our Lord.

But, I don't think those who shows there intense hatred toward Christianity doing by their individual will.

This kind of "Christian hate blog" had increased since last year Abe cabinet had passed the new security laws which is clearly anti-constitutional.

Please pray for traditional Christians and Catholic in Japan.


 


2016年8月28日日曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: Volunteer Harassment

Hi! It's Shellil Linn. (_ _).。o○

The olympic volunteer in Rio Olympic games had risen as a volunteer harassment trouble.
Most of the olympic volunteers in Rio were unpaid, unable to get some food and drink for eight to ten hours a day without taking a rest.

In Rio, the basic problem laid on the political and economical confusion. But, the situation is very different in Japan.

It is very common in Japan that the bureaucratic officials concern any religious authority, NPO, NGO and other voluntary groups as "convenient free-workers to use".

Bureaucrats and politicians settle NPO, NGO or other government-supported authority to make up "one more parachute employer" after their retirement. Those parachuted NPO and NGO usually do no useful work, but get prior support from the official budget.

So, "real volunteers" in Japan always need to concern two theme. One is "how & where to receive the enough support or donation to manage the volunteer group?". The other is "how to take the proper distance not to be enslaved by the local and central government official?".

Kyoto Catholic Church on about 19890
Christians and churches need to keep our mind on one more matter. We Christians, Catholics in Japan always need to keep on "if voluntary work according to Christianity is misunderstood, enslaved and used as the fraud to disturb the Christian mission; to let all the people in the world know the love of God.

Catholic churches, monasteries and convent has been keeping some kind of qualification on the social voluntary work in Japan.

First, churches, monasteries and convent stand for Christians welfare and those who have been abandoned by Japanese society such as a single mother girl who refused to have an abortion which is concerned preferable in this society.

Second, all the personal or group volunteers set an aim and purposes on the voluntary work clearly in the group, and do the limited works in voluntary spirit according to the Christianity.

Political gains were prior to the religious goodness since end of seventeenth century in Japan, when Ieyasu Tokugawa Shogunate preferred to sacrifice the Catholic villagers along with survivor samurai of Toyotomi's Eastern forces.

Chasing Christianity as the common enemy of all the Nipponism religion was the most convenient way to settle the sustainable central government for Ieyasu Tokugawa.

The cause of persecution was a faked reasoning to reject the slave trade to European countries at that time also.

Ieyasu Tokugawa lost his long-term inherited land of Suruga(present Shizuoka area), and gain the present Tokyo area where was shoal, empty lot with few fishermen and farmers living. Hence Ieyasu was planning to build a big cosmopolitan city, he asked refugees from all over the Japan include the war refugees from Korean Peninsula.

To gather so many male labours, his grandson had built a big amusement prostitute city called "Yoshiwara".  At that time, so many orphans &  widows could find job in Yoshiwara, and some even had found a new partner to marry.

But, Ieyasu needed to hide his purpose until he finally make up the Shogunate dynasty include refusing the export of slaves to overseas.

At the end of Edo period, all these political situation were forgotten, but the persecution toward all kind of religious authorities which argue on the freedom of religious faith to save "goodness" in us.

So many sect or temples of Buddhism were also faced and ruined by the persecution during Edo period.

And Meiji government wanted to make up partly Christianized Shintoism, for the nationalists misunderstood the Christian church as the religious authority with hierarchy, which is under governmental control.

So, whatsoever the Christians do voluntary, is concerned as the social utility value, only. No bureaucrats would appreciate and encourage the Christian mission no matter how much we contribute to the Japanese social welfare.

It is so called as "volunteer harassment" in Japan.

The volunteer harassment problems is very common in Japan. Once Mission of Charity convent of brothers had left Japan, because the civic center asked them not to do Mass and Liturgy of Hours in the convent if they want to live with homeless men in the same household.  According to the civic office, the Mission of Charity is against the constitution article 20th, which guarantee all the human being in Japan not to forced any religious worships.

It is just a sophistry, hence no one who are regular workers in a hospital or nursery home cannot refuse the Shintoism ritual the hospital do to purify the dead spirits who died in a hospital or nursery home!

The volunteer harassment happens for pet sitters, animal rights activists also. Those who are too eager to accept both bureaucratic requests, and human or animal right order, many commit suicide due to overwork and stress.

Hope we will find some way to talk over the volunteer harassment problem with Japanese bureaucrats, but, they won't listen to the voices they wouldn't accept anyway.

Pease pray for us.













2016年8月18日木曜日

Persecution Invisible In Japan: Guilty To Being Incorporative and Against Implicit Order

Hi! It's Shellil Linn. ( ´ ▽ ` )ノ

Some of my FB friends were already called to the police station just "to taste sticks" and threatened. So, the Abe and Nippon Kaigi dictatorship is going on as in else where in the world, like Myanma, Nepal, Egypt and North Korea and so on.

Nippon Kaigi ideal is the "non-constitutional nation" as in the middle age or earlier. Their people would never think about offending the Nippon Kaigi's implicit order, and never refuse to sacrifice each of oneself for meaningless order.

Once, I've found a word in my writing was corrected to "mis-spelling word", so I went to the teacher and asked her if she mis-corrected the spelling. She said "my correcting is right, because I'm your teacher".  And she corrected a correct word on the dictionary as "mis-spelled" again.

So, I bought her a dictionary which says her spelling was wrong, and mine was right. But, again, she corrected a word to the "mis-spelled".

What she would tried to say was "not to be offensive homeroom teacher's implicit order". But, since I have an aspergers' syndrome, I couldn't catch her suggestion "not to bother her with a little mistake".

So, I told my mother, and she finally admitted that she had made mistake in front of my mother. But, she had given a lower grade than anyone expected.

The other teacher in fourth grade claimed that I'm guilty being a Ijime abuse victim, because a victim has some kind of reason let an ordinary student become a perpetrator. According to her theory, if there's not a one who is incorporative enough to let any ordinary student make tempered, Ijime case won't happen.

So, she made me hold up a heavy wooden chair over 10 pounds high over my head for an hour during  a class study behind the classroom is going on. She claimed that only punishment for a Ijime victim to force a corporation was the severe physical punishment.  She once chased me out of classroom and hold two bucket filled with water to the brim, because she found that even during punishment, I haven't stopped to learn something even I couldn't take a note.

They both seemed as if they enjoying the punishment, like an abuser of domestic violence. They both maybe just tried to hide their inability.

But, those perpetrators and abusers wasn't punished as much as I was. Maybe there was some punishment, but, just to cover up everything, teachers became complicity to perpetrator and abuser kids.

It is very common things happens in Japanese society. And by punishing weak and minority who are receiving abuses, weak and minority become more and more isolated as abusers were evaluated as "corporative" to the implicit order which no one really cannot explain what it is except few "celebrity class people".

At the same time, I had been chased by a Sokagakkai girl, who never had listen a word of what I say, but to argue to conversion to Sokagakkai.

I still have some traumatic feeling to Japanese Buddhism especially, because of a series of Sokagakkai stoker girl's stubborned attitude. Even though I was in absolute isolation under the situational mutism symptom, dissociative identity disorders and other physical sickness, I've turn to be all alone instead of having any extra contact with others.

I'm not sure if an adult behind them planned something horrible on abusing me or not. I hope no one really planned to make a hell for so many people.

A chief of academic affairs one day told us "a good story".

He said ordinary people attempt struggles and problems if there's no aim to do "something".  And the aim should be best if that aim is really meaningless and worthless to do. If a leader try to do something worthy and meaningful, then people become  more independent, extravagant and seek something more worthy and meaningful. As people become more individual and incorporative, the society become more chaotic and uncontrolled.

And he started to talk about a good mayor who left a word "dig this place to find a treasure!" and died. Because people wanted to have treasure, they had dig a big big hole on the ground. People had been so fascinated for three years, and they finally find a treasure box. There was a piece of paper said "FILL THE HOLE AND DIG A NEW HOLE! YOU'LL NEVER BE BORED AND SELF-ESTEEMED! HA! HA! HA!".

By three years, people lost their purpose to find  something precious, and brainwashed aim "dig a hole and fill it again and again".

I still remember his face was really intoxicated as he is doing something really important.

I was so scared to the society I was. Human dignity, kindness or anything belongs to humanity was useless in the school I've been when I was in that public elementary school nearby.

The time was 1970-1976, when Japan seemed to be more democratic country.  Many people I turned to know after I've grown up don't believe the days I faced, but, I'm really not telling you a fantasy or day dream.

Pressure not to face the truth, and make fool of people is really tough. If I wasn't born as AS, I think I've already committed suicide long ago.


2016年8月15日月曜日

Things ordinary Japanese do on 15th August, the WWII Memorial day

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.♪( ´θ`)ノ

Japanese news and media sources tells only which politicians have worshiped in Yasukuni Shrine, the Nationalism goddesses Shrine, which is also concerned as a goddesses of successful delivery for a pregnant  women.

But, the majority of Japanese people have not interested in Yasukuni Shrine, or WWII Memorial day except few.

There was a women Hiroko, who once was my colleague in a small trading company. Her father lost his right knee & foot during WWII in China, and Hiroko's father and herself were faithful followers of Yasukuni Shrine, hence they receive newsletters and donation transfer slip several times a year.

Hiroko visits Yasukuni Shrine once or twice when she visits Tokyo by her father's sake.  She's busy on 15th August, hence she need to prepare and plan a visit to her husband's tomb for "Obon(Lantern Memorial Feast)". She said, "I've never visited Yasukuni Shrine on 15th August. My family ancestor is prior to me as a housewife, than a Shrine visit. I'm not a politician."

Some who are originated in local homeland, but work&live in a big cities, such as Tokyo, Osaka or Yokohama go back to their parents' homeland only while their parents alive. Many of them visit tombs at their homeland, and their children enjoys seaside, riverside, or mountains,

People originated in local homeland, but lost their direct contact with relatives concern they became "homeland less"  until the generation who had born and grown in a city raise their cosmopolitan consciousness.

Those who are already cosmopolitans enjoy overseas' trip, sports, hobby or just take easy rest at home in steaming sweaty hot summer. Young Otaku are quite busy visiting COMIKE(Comic Market) or other Otaku spots.

In my city, the civic centre announced to pray for the memorial of WWII victims this year on 12 o'clock in the evening, but no car, bicycles and people stand still and close their eyes, as if they hadn't heard anything.

Many Japanese have some feeling on the biggest world war we've experience in our history, but not in a way our government, LDP, Nippon Kaigi or mass media would intend to aware of.

I still remember two old handicapped men in a nursery home once I'd worked for. One was a low level secret police in Amami-Oshima Island, undergone with the Catholic persecution on 1930th. Another one was once placed to a KAMIKAZE suicide bomb mission on 16th August, 1945.

A pro secret policemen became troublesome patient as his violence toward nursers and nurses became horrible. And KAMIKAZE survivor often fought by words and fists over their wheelchair position. They seemed that both had pain in them, as pro-offender, and a victim of poverty, brutal abuse, and their brain-washed self during their military or police services.

They both were thrown away when the WWII was over like a trash, restarted their life again in a city far away from their home.

A pro secret policemen was too embarrassed to keep living in his home island, for he once had taken a side of the nationalism oppression. He'd thrown away his home, and try to be a cosmopolitan near Tokyo.

KAMIKAZE survivor's homeland was Hiroshima, the first nuclear bomb was dropped. So, he had to move to somewhere else to hide his family history in Hiroshima. He had married to his wife before he join the military, and his wife gave a birth to a daughter right after the WWII. He was afraid if his daughter have some obstacle and discrimination for nuclear bomb survivor in Hiroshima when a baby  become certain age to marry a man.

Those who had lived WWII had their life history to hide in their reason to survive the difficult decades after 15th August, 1945, the majority of nation had become some kind of complicity to the nationalists' theory in very ambiguous way.

But now, except some politicians, sect Shintoists, fantastic followers and the Yasukuni Shrine itself, ordinary Japanese are apathy to Yasukuni Shrine belief.

And this apathetic mentality for Yasukuni Shrine have become a match pump for Yasukuni Shrine to decline deeply to the Nippon Kaigi nationalist group.

Yasukuni Shrine's maintenance fees and costs have been paid by families, friends, supporters and relatives of "war goddesses(Gunshin)" of Yasukuni Shrine.

Those who died on the military or other duty acknowledged as obedient to the government order, were granted as war goddess of Yasukuni Shrine  after their death in duty  until 1945 like a decoration in other countries.

After WWII, Yasukuni Shrine lost its right to grant some spirit a war goddess. On 1970th,  seven WWII A-class war criminal was granted as Yasukuni Shrine war goddesses.  And the emperor Hirohito had stopped to visit and worship Yasukuni Shrine anymore, for he cannot worship or praise those who are truly responsible and guilty for WWII.

So, as the time goes by, the WWII survivors and their families get old, and die. And there will be less to send Yasukuni newsletters and donation slip, and less revenue Yasukuni Shrine receive.

Someday not too far from now, Yasukuni Shrine will have no one to ask for donation. So, some priests in Yasukuni Shrine imagine if Japan can start or join a war, and if they regain the right to grant a new war goddesses join to those old goddesses, their will be new addresses they can ask for the donation!

Karematsu-Shrine in Nagasaki, the Catholic Shrine built during Edo period
Until about 17th century, many goddess were born in legend, dreams and faith, praised and believed by people, and ruined its faith as the situation and people changes. But, as a polytheism country, there hadn't been a system of "solid goddess"system or any theoretical foundation undergo.  Many legends made up new goddess, and some old goddesses had disappeared as the time goes by.

At the end of Edo era, some scholars begun to theorize the Shintoism as a philosophy to make a common basis to form a counter power to Tokugawa Shogunate. Those samurai had deeply concerned on sophisticating Shintoism like a Buddhism interruption, but wasn't deeply concerned about practical faith and belief in people.

Samurai like Shoin Yoshida thought that if sophisticated samurai shows their ideology of modern Shintoism, ordinary people will set up their rituals, lyrics and stories as samurai's will.

At the end of Edo period, samurai had already lost their respect in their caste priority. Anyone could buy a clan or class by money. But samurai wasn't really aware if they're on the way to ruin or slowly rising of the people.

Truly said, samurai could make people suffered, but not changed.

The solid ranking system for all kinds of goddesses as we see now had begun only 150 years ago when Meiji government settled, limited, and became only authority to grant a spirit as official goddess in Shrine Shintoism and nationalistic Shintoism.

After WWII,  we lost the authority to grant a spirit, a fairy or a dead men goddess or not. And the absence of the authority accelerated the delay the recovery of self-esteem in Japan. Without anyone to trust on, how you can build up your self-esteem in peace and love without having any model to observe and keep in touch?

In the other word, the active polytheism in Japan was already over 150 years ago, for the polytheism live in local legend started by peopled , accepted and believed by local followers and their belief forms some kind of ritual or festival in the way people really want to do so.

As in any religion in the world, religious belief is based on internal freedom as to worship in public. No one never want any governmental control on seeking "why I live? why I die?".

Now, it is almost impossible to make ordinary Japanese aware their apathy to any kind of belief or faith.

The long term absence on active religious life have already become a blank hall in each  spirit in Japanese. Most Japanese might see only desperate, discrimination, emasculation, and lethargy in their internal spiritual hall. And so many people try to fill the hall with games, films, and just being "not noiseless" to avoid to face our historical facts.

The end of World War II was the beginning of endless absence of spiritual authority once Meiji government tried to brainwash with sticks and carrots.

In 21st century, we now started to walk a bit, stand by each one of our feet, and walk with it. It is probably way too far for the conservatives, but go forward to our tomorrow is the only way we have.









2016年8月7日日曜日

Curse godess(Goryo) belief and the Nationalistic Yasukuni godesses

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(^_^;)

Hence political situation has been becoming  so critical day by day in Japan, many of you might be interested in the basic religious concepts which has been underneath the traditional Japanese culture related with the Neo Nazi nationalist such as the new defense minister Tomoko Inada in Abe cabinet.

I often find a slanders for Catholic and handicapped so often on the twitter line & TV comments.
It seems as if the negative campaign for minorities and week ones is the only faith? those nationalists show.

So, I 'd like to introduce the brief history of Curse Spiritual belief(Goryo) which is the practical origin of the Nationalistic Yasukuni goddesses faith.

Goryo faith is still present in the traditional Shrine Shintoism, and the nationalists' curse' practice is something totally different from traditional Goryo faith. The difference was originated from the diplomatic isolation in our history, especially during Edo period.

Since 5th century, there were primitive belief for spirits who had died in misery and sorrow looser by  tragedic political disputes.

For example, prince Sawara of 8th century is the one of the most powerful curse goddess in Japan. Since his mother was a lower class born, young prince had sent to Zen priesthood, and so called " the Prince Zen monk(Shino-Zenji)".
Todaiji, one of the most powerful temple in Nara at that time had strongly supported and trusted the prince Sawara, he seems to be a monk gathered the respect from both monks and the people.

Since his father, the emperor Koin hadn't have a boy without the prince Sawara,  the empeor called out the prince from the temple, and canonized as his successor prince. But, prince Sawara was named as a suspect of murdering the most influential man, Tanetsugu Fujiwara, prince Sawara and the highest monk of Todaiji had died as traitors.

Prince Sawara is famous on his last words;"if the emperorship become a dominant of the political authority, I will curse the imperial house to abolish the emperorship itself".

Right after prince Sawara's death, misfortune had happened  in nobles and emperor houses over and over as well as natural disasters. People had believed that all the misfortune was the result of prince Sawara's curse, and try to pacify miserable prince's spirit by "Goryo-eh( a form of rituals to pacify the strong curse spirits) over and over.

But, the Goryo-eh rituals seemed not effective, later emperor crowned the dead prince Sawara as "Emperor Sudo(means "way of curses")" and buried him in imperial tomb.

Strong curse after one's death is the one standard regulation to grant or crown a spirit as a goddess.

There had been spiritual hierarchy on Shinto goddesses. Their has been spiritual ranking system for Shinto goddesses by each  class origin, house ranking, their life, personal excellence and each reason to grant the goddesshood.

Belief for curses had been so strong until about 11th century. But, Shinto shrines'  power seems to decline from 11-15th century for local legal power, trial place and legal cases notes had been became custody of Buddhist temples. Ordinary people's mind had shifted from the supernatural solution to more realistic solution.

So, the reasons and causes granted a goddess have forgotten, but the respect for their high ranks and the image of strength have remained in people's mind.

In 1603, Tokugawa tyranny has begun, and Ieyasu Tokugawa deserved to become the most strong and respectful goddess at the time. Ieyasu, the first Shogun had done all the lobby works to let the emperor grant him the great goddess(Dai-gongen), and his enemy be lower goddess than him.

Ieyasu thought that becoming a strongest goddess is the only way to dominate Japan peacefully by clearly political reasons. And banned the Christian mission just to spread the obscurantism to make  up the image of "the looser's goddess" as the emotional frustration vent.

During Edo period, there are only several ways to burst up the frustration for ordinary people; study, marshal art practices for steadies, and love affair, sex, abuse and suicide were the other way out of the frustration.

But as the urban poverty had risen as the social issue, the love affair & master image ghosts and monsters replaced the realistic human relationship. During Edo period, Catholic priests were slandered as a supernatural magicians which no one can ever imagine what it is!

This delusional fantasy was justified as "social truth" at the end of Edo period in the blindly closed nation.

Nationalistic imperialists had reviewed the ancient myth story book "Kojiki" is the truth of truth than the historical myth book called "Nihon-shoki".  National Imperialists thought that their fantastic interpretation study can restore the ancient religion without people's faith and belief.

Those samurai thought that ordinary people are as a lamp of cray which they can make all people's mind as they order by easy carrot and stick policy. And they were seriously scared by spiritual curse without thinking about the reason behind their emotion.

That's why the nationalistic imperialists  were so cautious for all kind of curse goddesses and possible curse spirits.

They thought that to the settlement of Meiji government, they had to performed "Goryo-eh" to pacify the emperor Sudo. They also granted Nobunaga Oda, the former enemy of Tokugawa Tycoonship as the goddess to avoid the possible misfortune caused by supernatural reasons.

Meiji bureaucrats were so careful for those who died in grudge and misfortune during the civil war between the imperial forces and the Tokugawa samurai.

So, to pacify those spirits died in the civil war, Meiji government had established "Chukonsha(Shrines of nationalists' goddesses) to avoid the curses from the huge numbers of dead samurai.

Until Sino-Japan War on 1894-5, only heroes and samurais or above were granted as goddesses as well as nationalists' martyrs. About the Sino-Japan War period, some fallen were granted as goddesses in Chukonsha and Yasukuni Shrine as the warrior hero.

It means the norms of granting goddess status became more precisely political and less religious in fact.

After the World War I, Japanese government have lower the norms of granting goddesses to all the fallen widened to all soldiers. All who died as a soldier granted to be a goddess of Yasukuni Shrine regardless of one's personal faith and belief.

It was so sad and ridiculous when one's dead soldiers' mementos had come home. The famous TV announcer, Monta Mino claimed that he can never forget the sorrow he felt on his father' call up. When his relative's mementos came home, all his neighbors  had started to shouted "Banzai(Cheers!)" with joy  as his father called up to join the military during funeral. In front of  Mino, he saw his mother is crying who was seven months pregnant with several boys include the child Monta Mino himself.

But, all these reality is not  the theme to the followers of Nippon Kaigi. After WWII, except few firemen and police men, Yasukuni Shrine had lost their right to grant any officials grant a goddesshood, because the granting goddess hood itself became anti-constitutional and against the natural human right.

Nippon Kaigi's theoretical founder, Masaharu Taniguchi argue that the constitutional definition for the human right itself is against nationalistic imperialism. Since founder Taniguchi was true reactionist, he thought it is necessary to expel the present constitution to purify his nation.

Ethnocenterists of 1960th to 1980th were influenced on Nippon Kaigi's right wing nationalistic  "mood" or "air(Kooki)" until 2012.

Since then, the ethoncenterists had begun split to the fundamentalistic supporter of the pacifist emperor Akihito, and the fantastic supporter of Taniguchi's theory in "Seimei-no-Jisso(The reality of the life)".

It is the very brief theoretical background of Nippon Kaigi and the national fundamentalists according to the materials and study I've done.

As it always has been, the theoretical background in fantastic belief is always walk along with the industrial vest right, under-the-table money and some political tendency.

We see no way to solve the double-twisted nation under the "divide, sectionalize and dictate" politics in Japan.





2016年7月29日金曜日

"Moralogy" and the atheism in Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.♪(´ε` )

As I said before, Japanese atheists are generally devoted into having very personal way of approach for the truth, eternity, and their death which unavoidable for all the human being.

As the rest of the world except Japanese are aware of how much Japanese culture is specific in its characteristics as well as its stand aloneness.

But,  so many Japanese concern that their atheistic "Moralogy" is the best universal, unique and all-embracing which is very close to Zygmunt Bauman's "the cosmopolitan consciousness".

Japanese Moralogy which Nippon Kaigi and other Shinto sects devoted into, is not same as the Confucian teaching originated in China.

Basic teaching of the Confucians are; do their best in the placed hierarchy in a society, man and his wife should do their roll with certain respect, show their respect to elderlies,  elder should show sincerely to younger, and young ones should be obedient for the age order, and the love to their friends.

But, Japanese Moralogy is different from the original concept. It teaches to be generous(Jin),  faithful for one's social duty(Gi), well-mannered to others(Rei), be smart to know others with indirect verbal communication(Chi), and be trustful(Shin) in the society we are now.

The Moralogy teaching are all related with the Nationalistic patriotism, but not with people's day to day living. The moralist ask all the nation to be faithful for the society than our family, or loving ones.

Japanese Moralogy teaching is more abstract, and ambiguous than the original Confucians' teaching.

The teaching is abstract means Japanese people don't know "how to reach out to these ethical aim".

Actually, the abstractness of Moralogy is the cause of the detraction of the religious literacy in Japan.

Many Japanese people don't feel the self-contradiction to being religiously illiteracy of oneself while others are not achieving the best result as in each ideal or teaching.

So, the Moralogists accuses Christians for not reaching out to the state and condition  of Saints and the angels. Or some weak, handicapped, disabled and sick are not achieving their best or even miracle work just to reduce the social financial and psychological burden.

Nippon Kaigi, the Japan Conference which originated on the radical fundamentalism of Masaharu Taniguchi, who had devoted to the nostalgia to Edo period Omoto sect, is also utilizing the Moralogy as "the universal truth, without any conflict" having one religious authority to belong.

Now, let us review the religious literacy. Religion is like a one's house. If one is living in a house, the house become home to the one lives that house. But, once a house has emptied then that house turn to a deserted and collapsed.

Same thing happens on the religion. If ten percent of the faithful are their to support their innate faith with prayer, rituals and the local custom, the religious belief is alive filled with ones' joy. But, once people started to loose their faith unawarely, then the basis of the religion will become "the deserted and collapsed house".

Nippon Kaigi has been trying to reinstall the Meiji constitution along with their political aim to  their three goodnesses; recover the big patrimony family system, deny the natural human right for 99% of common people, and the educational revolution to revive the moral education(Dotoku) centering the Nationalist duty, but not be patriotic according to the personal feeling or personal opinions.

For Moralogists in Japan, all the religious authority or movement are concerned the source of making conflict toward each others meaninglessly. And for over 90 years, common people in Japan have been brainwashed as "the Moralogy is the only universal truth over all the religious authority, belief".

And most of common people in Japan are not aware how their religious illiteracy is seriously under-leveled in the rest of the world.

This situation occurs the serious communication trouble with Japan and the rest of the world.

Nippon Kaitgi's fantasy aim is to Japanese the whole world, just because they really don't know how to let Japan be adopted into the rest of the world.

There are 26 nuclear power plant on the middle of the pacific plate, the Philippine plate, North American Plate, and the Eurasian plate, with 110 volcanos in about three thousand islands include the four main islands.

That means Japan is the world threat on radiative poison source for the entire earth.
Japan really need the sincerely help from the world as well as the situation in Syria, Palestine.







2016年7月23日土曜日

The Effect, The Defect And The Side Effect Of Atheism We See In Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.♪( ´▽`)

Last week, I've found a commentary  discussed on "if the religious conflict cause the civil war in the middle East?" in Al Jazeera English home page.

It was really impressive that a religious philosopher who regarded the freedom to live as an atheist is really important to avoid the religious conflict in a society even that was never a point for the studio commentator.

There is the one common point in Judaism, Christianity, Muslim, and Hinayana Buddhism. To join the religious community as a lay person, one has to be entitled by some clear reason(ex: being Jewish,  born or raised as a child in certain religious family, acknowledged and studied the teaching, some kind of decision making to join the community by oneself) to swear, or have a Covenant to show one's belief in some way.

In Japanese Buddhism, Shintoism along with a family or area never require any study on the teaching, never required to know the basic concept of any religious concept.

Recently, we don't even need to know about the religious rituals such as one's marriage or funeral, or memorial services of household religion.

An atheistic marridge hall in the hotel is available. Usually they call a  white man actor as a faked pastor as a fashion.
About marriage, everybody can do atheistic marriage ceremony, and the marriage advisor teach you everything.

On the funeral and memorial services, one can discuss with a funeral service company salesman. And the salesman can find appropriate Buddhist monk, Shinto priest, protestant pastor or even a Catholic priest! You can pre-study briefly what you have to do during the services in your household religion  by a DVD explains all details along with your religion provided by the funeral company.

All you have to do is select the marriage or funeral service package plan suitable for your budget!

Cause one don't have to worry to bother his/her life joining unwanted religious services.
Wow! Japan is the true paradise for atheists!

That's why almost all Japanese are apathetic to being an atheist no matter what they feel in their mind. Most of modern Japanese people are becoming atheistic by urbanization and the isolation toward their ancestor, Buddhism teaching or Shinto goddesses.

The natural atheism in Japan has a good effect for those who aren't "blessed" in religious literacy. Those who aren't gifted in religious sense don't have to be patient for enforced to join some religious community which against their atheistic sense.

The natural atheism in Japan sometimes become a tool to avoid the religious conflict if one is really t" a talented atheist". In this sense, Japanese people say "be a Roman in Rome" and  some of them really show their respect to the local religious custom in the place they live.

Most of atheistic Japanese are so serious about "moral" not to become troublesome to the other people.

Since Japanese government had been persecuting the Christianity since 17th century, majority of people concert that the Christianity confront to the Japanese atheism. majority of over middle age people still concern "it is not allowed to become a Christian in Japan or covert from the household religion".

And it is typical teaching in sect religion in Japan that "oh, you don't have to convert from your household religion to join XX sect spirituality. It's nothing more than spiritual to join XX!"

One reason it happens is brainwashing the nation as atheists are very convenient for raising fund for so many temples, small and Grand Shrine's endlessly rising construction cost frequently happen in all area in Japan except Okinawa and Hokkaido.

To continue the fund raising, the blessing for the building, purification ritual in hospitals and nursery house where people might die is the important revenue sources. In this point, LDP, Nippon Kaigi and other sect religious groups have been working so hard to promote the purity, cleanliness, and aim to be pollution-free spiritually.

"Bacillus" "dirt" is the enemy and discriminated term in Japan frequently used by racist. So, Japanese TV commercials we often watch are soaps, deodorizers, cars, and insurances!

The natural atheism cause the apathy to the religious matter which cause the serious degradability of the religious literacy in Japan.

Even the famous University professors in liberal art don't understand the practical functions of the religious literacy in very basic approach because there's no tradition to devote into one religious belief in this nation.

So, it is very hard to accept death hence no human being can terminate death no matter how scientific progress shows its advantage.

To be respectful for the basic human right, Christians and Muslims also need to concern about those who are't talented in some kind of spiritual or religious sense. I think it must be not easy for those who are dull in religious sense need to be patient in Sunday school without understanding what they had learn, and have a Covenant just to accept the parents' & relative's expectation.

Atheism seems as it is the modern religion in Japan.

I'm not sure if the atheism is good or bad. But, we Catholics should pay attention to those who aren't talented in religious or spiritual sense.







2016年7月18日月曜日

A Basic Concept of the Religious Studies about Japan

Hi! It's Shellil Linn.(_ _).。o○

For those who are interested in religious studies will face a big wall to understand "what is the religion in Japan".

Some books say Japanese are mainly Buddhists, while the other material claim that most of the ordinary Japanese are sentimentally Shintoists.

If you try to find some ethnographical pieces written in English, you'll find so deep & narrow field work report on a very small village culture or religious activities.

Even the scholars in the religious major don't want to write on the religious culture covering entire Japan except Japanese government assign some scholar to do so.

If you ask any Japanese scholar, bureaucrats why the Japanese people hesitate to express their religious matter, most of they confess that "Japanese people are too shy to express what in each feeling".

I would say those Japanese authoritarians claim "Japanese are very shy and in-going" is the biggest which made of entire Japanese society with apathetic ignorance for the deterioration of religious literacy in Japanese society.

Majority of Japanese people concern the primitive chaos is the only truth. The chaos is true to Japanese because all the religious teaching can only tells the part of the primitive chaos. And all the world or local religions, the local folk belief, local processions and the pilgrimage are concerned as some part of "the entire primitive chaos".

And in the interaction of Japanese mentality, each person is looking forward to find a very personal spiritual ties with the primitive chaos in very individual way in person.

Actually, rest of the world except Japan realizing that we,  civilized people face the desperate high wall if one would do so.

But, in Japan, the Imperialistic Reformational Extremists who have risen on around early 18th century, at the very end of Tokugawa Tyranny, concerned that they revive the ancient myth called "Kojiki(Ancient mythical Writing)" and pick & pasted the "usable and convenient" concepts from Christianity, Greek and Roman philosophy along with the Confucian teaching "usable and convenient" for their political purposes.

99% of ordinary people had not agreed with these reformer's attempt. However, the reformers themselves had faced the high black on the wall; their parents, partners, and relatives.

During Tokugawa Tyranny, a household must have registered to some Buddhist temple nearby legally. There was almost no freedom of belief nor faith for both priests and lay Buddhists. Buddhist monks' child must inherit only the sect and temple one belong.

Typical shrine until Edo period had worshiped Buddhism and Shinto Statues  in one place.
There had been an annual check-up the temple belonging for their ancestral worship, and must temple the Holy Cross with Jesus to testify not a Christian.

Meiji Era reformers wanted the same system in Shintoism, and failed by five years.

So, the Meiji government had done their best to terminate the local culture, and brain washed the people through the school education by "a person should be spiritually tied with the primitive chaos directly without any religious teaching, faith and prayer which are not favorable to the power of the time.

Because Meiji government had trashed out the traditional religious feeling people had kept until the early 20th century, Japanese people gradually lost their religious literacy lived in their daily life by  political oppressions.

Also, the ethnical standard for sex, marriage, funerals, and folk art had rehashed even the time goes by,  the religious literacy in Japan had got lowered and degraded as the time goes by.