In a small town in Hokkaido, 58 gravestones in a Japanese cemetery were deliberately toppled.
The perpetrators have not been identified.
Online, many Japanese have noted the rapid increase of certain foreign communities in the region and drawn their own conclusions.
Whether those conclusions prove correct or not, the act itself remains the same: the graves of local families were vandalized, and no one has been held accountable.
Respect for the dead is one of the quieter measures of a society’s stability.
Japanese woman says she doesn’t want Pakistani migrants in Japan because they are inbred, have low IQs, and are disproportionately more likely to be rapists.
“Look what they did in the UK.”
Are you with her?
Throughout history,
religion has started wars.
“Our god is right.”
“Your god is wrong.”
Blood was spilled.
Cities burned.
People died.
Japan gave a different answer.
In the 6th century,
Buddhism arrived in Japan.
Shinto was already there.
Two completely different belief systems.
Two different sets of gods.
Normally, one would win.
One would disappear.
But the Japanese people said
“Both are right.”
Temples were built beside shrines.
Torii gates were erected on temple grounds.
Gods and Buddhas
shared the same space.
They did not compete.
They did not deny each other.
They did not drive each other out.
For over 1,000 years
they simply coexisted.
Quietly. Completely.
This was not ambiguity.
This was not indecision.
This was the art of embracing.
Not eliminating what is different
but wrapping it in.
Not resolving contradictions
but holding them together.
This is the deepest wisdom
in the Japanese spirit.
Today, Japanese people still live this way.
New Year’s — at a Shinto shrine.
Funerals — at a Buddhist temple.
Christmas — celebrated with joy.
Obon — welcoming ancestors home.
Some call this contradictory.
But Japan has known the contradiction
for a thousand years
and chosen it anyway.
Because all of it feels true.
The question is not
which is right.
The answer has always been
both are right.
In those three words
lives a wisdom
that has outlasted
every war fought in the name of religion.
While the world keeps fighting
over who is right
Japan has been walking
a different road
for over a thousand years.
That road has a name.
Shinbutsu-shūgō.
The harmony of gods and Buddhas.
Perhaps the world
needs to learn its name.
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