Word: shintoism
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Hirohito & Shintoism...
Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...
...totalitarian State, might apostasize. But, said Bishop Abe: "The Government has not interfered and has no intention of interfering with the doctrine of the church." Only State control is administrative enforcement of the 1940 Religious Bodies Law (which recognizes Christianity as an official Japanese religion along with Shintoism and Buddhism). All church executives must be Japanese subjects, and no native church worker can be supported by foreigners; but American mission boards can still pay the salaries of U.S. citizens working in Japan, can aid the Japanese churches financially provided they tie no string to their gifts...
Methodist Bishop Yoshimune Abe let his words speak louder than silence. Bishop Abe, reported Harold Edward Fey in last week's Christian Century, regularly worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
State religion of Japan since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has been Shintoism ("The Great Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship. Shrine Shinto is worship of the Imperial ancestors. Since the invasion of Manchuria Japanese nationalists have emphasized its religio-patriotic importance...