Speaking of the U.S. Missionaries in Japan

What’s so divine about breeding 9 children like rabbits, and placing Colin Powell’s book on your Church[sic] altar?

We all commit follies and the author is by no means immune to lapses in good judgment. A while ago, while searching for English-speaking kids to befriend his then 3-year-old son, the author and his family inadvertently ended up in a missionary church on an otherwise uneventful Sunday, completely innocently.

It wasn’t a pleasant experience. Witnessing about 50 or so grown ups and their kids chanting biblical propaganda in Japanese, or in any other language, while pretending to do it out of “divine love,” never is!

But the worst was yet to come. First, Gacuette discovered in total horror that the resident missionary, an ex-military personnel, had 9 children. Nine children?

Nine Children!

How does a missionary manage to bring up nine children on what must surely be a puny salary? What extra-curricular activities must he undertake to earn enough money to support such unsustainable, un-ecological and “unholy” lifestyle?

Is the Pentagon Paying the Missionaries in Japan?

With the church selling the family silver to pay the victims of child rape, and settle all other abuse claims against their brothers and fathers, where do the missionaries get their money from? About 99 percent of the missionaries come from military backgrounds. Could it be that the US taxpayer is inadvertently footing the bill [missionaries' salaries, expenses ...] through the US Defense budget? Who is looking anyway?

Colin Powell on the Altar

Then, with another surge of horror, the author discovered a book by Colin Powell, which was prominently displayed on the bookshelf in the congregation area. Gacuette can’t quite recall the title: “How my little lie helped the military commit genocide in Iraq,” “How to kill a million plus ‘ragheads’ in three easy steps,” “How to decimate defenseless people with minimum canon fodder?” Or something along those lines.

Imagine having a Church of Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin or Ariel Sharon. Church of George Bush, anyone? What will the Japanese think of next!

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Celebrating Penis!

Kanamara a frisky festival for every Tom, Dick and Harry…without the Tom and Harry

(Mainichi Japan) April 7, 2008

KAWASAKI — Thousands gathered here Sunday for the Kanamara Matsuri, an event with roots dating back centuries and now one of Japan’s best-known fertility festivals.

Kanamara Matsuri, literally the Festival of the Iron Penis, had its beginnings in the Edo Period ( 1603-1868 ) with the prayers of women called meshimori onna, according to Wakamiya Hachimangu, the Shinto shrine in Kawasaki where the event was held.

‘Shinto priests and community leaders pray to inspire the spirits at a portable phallic shrine [a penis-shaped portable shrine called "Elizabeth"] during the Kanamara Festival, a fertility ritual, at Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo April 6, 2008. The festival, which is held annually on the first Sunday of April, is believed to bring good luck and fertility blessings. (Reuters)’

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Top 10 Reasons Why Japanese Loathe Gaijin: Religion

Top 10 Reasons Why Japanese Loathe Gaijin (foreigners) …

10. Little Boy
9. Fat Man
8. Missionaries
7. Unfair Trade (!)
6. Cruelty to Women
5. Tobacco
4. Imposed Modernity
3. Religion

Coming soon…

Foreign Conquerors

Top 10 Reasons Why Japanese Loathe Gaijin (foreigners) …

10. Little Boy
9. Fat Man
8. Missionaries
7. Unfair Trade (!)
6. Cruelty to Women

There are a few proud moments in the history of Japan when women fought bravely against their foreign conquerors who lived privileged lives that were made comfortable with the service of about 100 native slaves per family.

“[The native women] were not allowed to refuse the demands of their T’ang Chinese and Korean masters, and had no choice but to give birth to children of mixed racial origin. They brought up their children, but were never legitimized by their masters. Perhaps this is the reason we call ourselves shomin (the illegitimate people), even under today’s democratic system.” Notes Toshihiko Abe, in Japan’s Hidden Face.

The T’ang Chinese invaded Japan in the 7^th century (664 CE). They created the Japanese social order, which formed the origin of today’s vertical society in Japan [see note]. The Chinese separated the society into two classes: ryo, T’ang Chinese or Kudara court nobles (aka, Tou, or Fuji-wara), and sen, the humble slaves, comprising all other races—Kogoryoe, Silla, Ya, Gen (aka,Yottsu), Zoshiki, joined later by Khitan (aka, Kitsu), Heike (aka, Pei), Sanka (a mix of Ya and Yottsu).

[“The origin of racial discrimination in Japan also began in the 7th century. It was generally recognized by the Japanese intelligentsia and the ruling class till the Meiji reform that only nobles of either T’ang Chinese or Peakche (Korean) blood had the legitimate right to rule Japan.” Notes Abe.]

In the 8th century, aboriginal rebel armies that emerged in northeastern Japan revolted against the T’ang Chinese and threatened their power base in Yamato. The armies “consisted of many clans, each commanded by a bold female leader or okami (woman general). Female leaders trained male corps, but dissatisfied with men’s fighting spirit, organized special corps of women only.”

Masako Hojo (1157-1225), one of the most remarkable women in Japanese (and world) history, married the head of Yottsu people, Yoritomo Minamoto, who established the Kamakura Bakufu (the military government was called Bakufu meaning tent government because the soldiers lived in tents). Masako gathered an army of 190,000 fighters and defeated the imperial forces after the imperial court had declared war against the Bakufu in 1221. She ousted the imperial families and confiscated their lands. Masako’s victory was regarded as a Ya woman’s revenge on the Chinese conquerors, the Fujiwara (Japanese name for the T’ang Chinese conquerors).

“During the civil war age women showed courage and resourcefulness by fighting as bravely as men. To appear more formidable, they shaved off their eyebrows, painted horrible, frightening ones with ink, and died their teeth black to scare enemies when they opened their mouths. Female daimyos and samurai proliferated until after the age of the Tokugawas, when female succession was prohibited.”

After Buddhism became Japan’s national religion, women were prohibited from becoming daimyos (feudal lords). “Buddhism was introduced from China via Korea, both countries being ‘men first’ races.”

“The fate of women in the countryside was cruel. Priests had the right to rob a woman of her virginity before sending her into prostitution, where she would be forced to serve numerous men until death. In the family of the daimyo or samurai, all female servants were vassals of the lord; if the lord wanted a female servant’s chastity she could not refuse.” Writes Abe.

As the tide of ultra nationalism and militarism grew stronger in the prewar Japan, “women’s standings slipped further, until women came to be seen only as instruments to breed men for the military, or as the objects of man’s sexual desire.”

In the late 19^th century, cotton and yarn spinning factories employed many female workers who worked long hours in adverse labor conditions for very low pay. Many died as a result and many more were stricken with disease and fatigue.

The lives of farming families were equally miserable. Brokers sold young daughters of indebted tenant farmers to houses of prostitution to settle their debts.

The women’s suffrage movement in Japan emerged during pre-war days, centering on the Women’s Suffrage League. Ironically, the Japanese women’s right to vote and be elected was conferred on them after the war ended in 1945.

[Note: “Vertical Society. In Japan, a vertical chain of submission begins with the emperor and then moves downward to the president and members of the Liberal Democratic Party; the prime minister & cabinet; president, directors, executive offices, and managers of companies; and finally the workers.” ~ Toshihiko Abe, Japan’s Hidden Face.]