@bunburyoudoujp@timothyjphelan Well even the Buddhist sects have tried to ban each other and/or got to war with each other within Japan itself. So calling another religion or sect false has some history to it in Japan
@bunburyoudoujp@timothyjphelan Besides Shinto and the new religions nothing else is indigenous to Japan. Catholicism has been here longer than much of the cults that popped up in the post war era. Catholic Gaijin has the right in a measured way to advocate for the 1%
@nise_yoshimi The longer I live in Japan the more I find the constant western European grin to be stupid. The face of an overworked ojisan on the train has an impressive aura akin to a battle-hardened サムライ
@Noahpinion Westerners are used to people bending over backwards to accommodate them. So they refuse to learn the language and follow the customs while expecting everyone to take them seriously
@TBYSTweet Its crazy how many 日本長い欧米人 cant speak any Japanese. I have met like 3 people that can string together a sentence. I usually just talk in Japanese and they leave