Word: shinto
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...burning. No one knows how big the societies are, though it has been said that Mitsuru Toyama could call upon any one of 10,000 youths to murder anyone but the Emperor, and the deed would be done. The societies meet in buildings which appear to be jujitsu halls, Shinto temples, homes, business offices...
...single martyr in Japan since Commodore Perry reopened it to missionaries and traders in 1853. Last week, as the Japanese Government's undercover campaign to purge Christian missions of their foreign elements and reduce Christianity to the status of a minor sect within the Shinto nationalist cult progressed, there was further evidence that Japanese Christians today have no thirst for martyrdom...
Since some 70% of the Catholic priests and officers of Japan are foreigners, the church is certain to undergo further restrictions. Catholics, like Protestants, meanwhile paid obeisance at Shinto shrines...
...order to make reasonably sure that archeologists of 6939 would know of the treasure consigned to them, Westinghouse sent books of record to world's leading libraries, telling how to calculate the date when the capsule should be opened, by use of the Gregorian, Chinese, Jewish, Mohammedan and Shinto calendars, and by astronomical time if no calendars survive...
...Korea Presbyterians have closed their schools rather than permit pupils to take part in Shrine Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...