A bit odd, don’t you think?
As soon as Muslims started immigrating to Japan, its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples started burning down, just like the churches in Europe.
To those considering moving to Japan, let me be honest with you.
Last week, a 300-year-old shrine in Niigata burned down.
It wasn't the first. Shrines, pig farms, graveyards, set on fire and desecrated.
Things we've quietly protected for centuries are disappearing, one after another.
If you cannot honor our gods, please don't come.
If you cannot eat pork, please don't come.
If you cannot accept cremation, please don't come.
This is a sincere request from us.
If you come to Japan, you will be unhappy, and so will we.
I want to ask people around the world who are not Japanese.
At the restroom near Fushimi Inari Shrine last night — a sacred place —
someone left diapers covered in feces and piles of trash in the hand-washing area and just walked away.
Is this considered normal behavior where you come from?
To whoever did this — what the hell is wrong with you?
This isn’t just bad manners — it’s disgusting, disrespectful, and completely unacceptable.
This is a place of worship, not a garbage dump.
If anyone thinks this kind of behavior is okay, that’s the problem.
Clean up your own filth and learn some basic respect.
Don’t you all agree?