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Died. Joseph Warren Teets Mason, 62, United Press war analyst; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Veteran foreign correspondent, during World War I he wrote a U.P. war column, ten years ago went to the Orient to study Shinto, came home last year to write another U.P. war column...
Bishop Abe reported that before Japanese Christians agreed to the Government's insistence that they take part in Shrine Shinto ceremonies, the Government gave written assurance that the observance is purely patriotic (like uncovering at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier) and in no way religious. On the same grounds...
Japanese Roman Catholics have been doing likewise. "The god we speak of here has a different meaning from the absolute God," the bishop quoted from a Ministry of Education pronouncement on the Shinto divinity Amaterasu Omikami. Furthermore, to make the distinction clearer, the new church is changing the name of God from Kami (the word for the Shinto divinities which early Christian missionaries adopted) to the honorific Kamisama, Ainokami (God of Love) and Shu (Lord...
...subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe's practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles' Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was "immoral," the Resurrection because it was "unscientific and superstitious," the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged...
...Gods. While Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, his Cabinet and other privileged persons followed the Son of Heaven into the sanctuary of his ancestral goddess, thousands of lesser Japanese made their way to Shinto shrines throughout Japan. Outside the gates of the shrine to the war dead in Tokyo, women offered white girdles to the worshippers. These girdles, stitched with red, make soldiers who wear them invulnerable. Before entering the gates each worshipper purified himself by washing out his mouth in a common pool. Before leaving, each worshipper tossed coins before the shrine. In the lesser shrines, as in the Imperial...