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Video : Japan – Islamist Vandalises Shinto Shrine

Video : Japan – Islamist Vandalises Shinto Shrine

An African Islamist migrant was arrested under suspicion of vandalizing a Shinto shrine in Japan while proclaiming ‘the only god is Allah,’ according to reports. Surveillance footage shows an African male clad in yellow garb striding across the grounds at Mizuoka Hachiman Shrine before stopping to kick and smash items at an offertory box. [...]

May 28, 2023 HHR Analysis/Insights, Archives, HHR Videos, Indigenous/Pagan Voice, News updates, World Focus 0

Arrest warrant issued for Japanese Christian over oil vandalism at shrines and temples in Nara, Kyoto and Chiba

Arrest warrant issued for Japanese Christian over oil vandalism at shrines and temples in Nara, Kyoto and Chiba

An arrest warrant has been issued for the 52-year-old leader of a fringe Christian group in Japan arrested in connection with vandalism at shrines and temples in Nara, Kyoto, Chiba, and elsewhere In late March the man allegedly poured or sprinkled an oil-like liquid on the premises of Katori Shrine in Katori City, Chiba Prefecture. [...]

June 4, 2015 HHR Archives, Indigenous/Pagan Voice 0

Twitter friendship blossoms for Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe

Twitter friendship blossoms for Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe follows only three people on Twitter: his outspoken wife, a scandal-tainted politician and Prime Minister-in-waiting Narendra Modi. Modi and Abe are two assertive nationalists who came to power on platforms pledging economic revival. They share a keen interest in neighbour China’s growing regional ambitions. Mutually appreciative messages have pinged back [...]

May 22, 2014 HHR News updates 0

Christian Proselytism’s Defeat In Japan

Christian Proselytism’s Defeat In Japan

Although far from uniform, the composite picture of Christianity that emerges in a number of Japanese sources from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries is of a Buddhist heresy propagated by barbarians and focused around the worship of a demonic deity.28 This sect encourages loyalty to a barbarian king said to be the representative of [...]

April 24, 2014 HHR Analysis/Insights 1

Shinto in politics & its significance for Hindus

Shinto in politics & its significance for Hindus

Recently we came across this article which talks about the growing assertiveness of Shintoists in Japanese politics which is quiet significant for Hindus though our people don’t realize it and we hope to rectify that here. Roots of State Shinto The roots of what is called “state Shinto” go back to the Meiji era (1868-1912) [...]

April 19, 2014 HHR Analysis/Insights 0
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