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Japanese Buddhists, Christians mark six-month anniversary of earthquake, tsunami
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While the United States was observing the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Japan on Sunday was marking the six-month anniversary of the March earthquake and tsunami that devasted a large portion of the island nation. The Japanese observed the anniversary with prayer services, bell ringing and chanting at 2:46 p.m., the time when the…
Reuters: Tsunami survivors observe “obon” at spared Buddist temple
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In a little room of a small hillside Buddhist temple that barely survived Japan’s tsunami five months ago, Yuko Kikuchi knelt down, quietly sobbing and gently caressing the boxes that hold the bones and ashes of her perished mother and sister-in-law, reports Yoko Kubota. “It’s harder now,” says 57-year-old Kikuchi, who came back to her…
Book says MacArthur flooded Japan with post-war religion
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By SUZANNE McGEE c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS/ENInews) A new book on post-war Japan says Gen. Douglas MacArthur sought to fill the country’s “spiritual vacuum” with religious and quasi-religious beliefs, from Christianity to Freemasonry, as an antidote to communism. In 1945 Under the Shadow of the Occupation: The Ashlar and The Cross, Japanese investigative…
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