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socrateos
Dumb.
Johnkmilonas
Pay backs are a bitch.
since1981
Read it three times. Confused. Where is the crime? Does Japan not have freedom of religion? This said, pictures would have been a plus to this article.
ebisen
I'm confused by your confusion. You're free to practice any religion as long as you don't cause any harm to others. Not the case here, the authorities are right to treat this with a heavy hand, given the many terrorism cases happening recently.
thepersoniamnow
One thing is for sure. If you muck about at shrines or temples...they will catch you!
This has to be the 20th time over the years I hear about someone being caught for past crimes at a shrine.
Steven Fennel
This is disappointing for Taiwan, who for many, are seen as being apart from China. This type of disrespect can be expected from the mainland, but Taiwan should try to distance itself from such abhorrent acts
Yuko Maeda
Fine them for the cost of clean-up and inspection.
nandakandamanda
It is not abhorrent exactly as it is just powder which will blow away presuumably, but it does sound ignorant, at least, and nuts at best without further explanation. Tinfoil hats, anyone? Nijo Jo is not really famous for mass killings as far as I know, and no real battles were fought there. In the meantime I hope they let us know their real reasons for flying to a foreign country, twice, with bags of incense to spread around famous buildings.
Haruka
If they were ashes of a body I would understand the concern, but this makes no sense to me.
Goodlucktoyou
so you can't take a bottle of water on a plane, but 1.2kg of brown powder is OK?
since1981
Perhaps I was misunderstood. I was not defending vandalism or the women. The story opens using the word "blotted", (not vandalized) the women says "sprinkled incense powder (at the castle) to purify the souls of the deceased.", then "temporarily closed for an inspection" (not clean-up).
And "In February 2015, Ninomaru Palace was vandalized with an oily liquid." (Where is the connection to this case?)
As I always see small mounds of salt (white power sustains) at the entrance of and in and around shrines and temples, I wonder if their intentions as stated are true or not. Therefore, would have liked to see photos.
NoIdeaAboutAnything
It's hard to understand some of these Cults...
Mirai Hayashi
idiots....I hate stupid people