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There are many different countries with many different races and histories around the globe. This diversity is what makes the world tick. While it has produced varied faiths, contributing to religious wars or ethnic conflicts, it has also fostered the development of our civilization through friendly competition among the nations.
Based on his Reikai Monogatari, Onisaburo sees a special mission in Japan and the Japanese race. Here's how it goes.
Ancient Japan was part of the Asian Continent, and the Sea of Japan did not exist. The Pacific Ocean was not what it is today, but part of the continent.
Perennial evil vibes defiled the spirit world of Earth, turning it into a pandemonium of wicked deities. Parent deity and creator of the planet's spirit world, Kunitokotachi no Mikoto blew his top. His anger caused natural calamities, submerging the portions of land known currently as the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean while leaving intact the toughest part--the "dragon-shaped" archipelago. (Vol. 1 of the Reikai Monogatari)
This dragon-shaped archipelago is said to be a carbon copy of Kunitokotachi no Mikoto when he was in his dragon shape. It was later named the Islands of Onokoro (Self-Curdling, Self-Condensed) and invested with a mission to serve as the ena (placenta) of the world. This group of islands is the current Japanese Archipelago (Imagine the island of Kyushu as the dragon's head and Honshu as its body. For details: WorldAtlas.Com)
Then what does Onisaburo mean by the "ena (placenta) of the world"?
It refers to the idea of Japan being the miniature kata (model) of the world:
- Passive kata (world ==>> Japan ==>> Omoto)
What happens to the world, for good or bad, will happen to Japan, which will then happen to Omoto with varying degrees of similarity and extent.
- Active kata (Omoto ==>> Japan ==>> world)
What happens to Omoto, for good or bad, will serve as a self-similar model of Japan, which will then serve yet another self-similar model of the world on a larger, more dramatic scale.
The reader may be skeptical about this notion, but if you take a close look at the geographical similarities between Japan and the rest of the world, you would probably change your mind... the webmaster hopes.
Onisaburo claims that the Japanese main island of Honshu corresponds to Eurasia, the northern island of Hokkaido to North America, the island of Shikoku to Australia, the southern island of Kyushu to Africa, and Taiwan (former territory of Japan) to South America.
The same principle applies to individual geographical features as follows:
 Geographical Correlation between Japan and the World(Excerpts: Reikai no Saikokimitsu by Yasuaki Deguchi. KK Longsellers, 1999.)
Honshu = Eurasia
- The Tsugaru Strait = the Bering Strait
- The Mutsu Peninsula = the Kamchatka Peninsula
- The Noshiro River = The Lena River
- The Oshika Peninsula = the Korean Peninsula
- The Kitakami River = the Amur River
- The Bay of Ishimaki = the Yellow Sea
- The Abukuma River = the Huang He
- The Tone River = the Yangzi
- Lake Towada = Lake Baikal
- The Ogasawara Islands = the Maluk Islands
- The Izu Peninsula = the Malay Peninsula
- The Izu Oshima Island = the Sumatra Island
- The Bay of Tokyo = The Gulf of Thailand
- The Fuji Mountains = the Himalayas
- The Fuji River = the Ganges River
- The Tenryu River = the Indus River
- Lake Suwa = the Aral Sea
- The Shinano River = the Ob River
- Lake Biwa = the Caspian Sea
- The Sado Island = Novaya Zemlya
- The Kiso River = the Euphrates River
- The Bay of Ise = the Persian Gulf
- The Kii Peninsula = the Arabian Peninsula
- The Awaji Island = the New Guinea Island
- The Tsushima Islands = the Svalbard Islands
- The Noto Peninsula = the Scandinavian Peninsula
- The Jinzu River = the North Dvina River
- The Bay of Osaka = the Black Sea
- The Seto Inland Sea = the Mediterranean Sea
- The Kanmon Strait = the Strait of Gibraltar
- The Oki Islands = the Great Britain Island and the Ireland Island
- The Iki Island = Iceland
Hokkaido = North America
- The Bay of Nemuro = the Hudson Bay
- The Kuril Islands = the Queen Elizabeth Islands
- The Kunashiri Island = the Labrador Peninsula
- Sakhalin (former Japanese island) = the Baffin Island
- The Bay of Uchiura = the Gulf of Mexico
Shikoku = Australia
- The Bay of Tosa = the Great Australian Bight
- The Hiuchi Open Sea = The Gulf of Carpentaria
Kyushu = Africa
- The Tanegashima Island = the Madagascar Island
Taiwan = South America
Now turn to some incidents from Omoto's annals that seem to exemplify the idea of kata (model), where events of divine importance occur through fractal patterns:
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- Jul. 22, 1934: The Showa Shinseikai was inaugurated at the Armed Forces' Hall at Kudan in Tokyo.
- Jul. 22, 1940: The Second Konoe Cabinet was
formed at the Armed Forces' Hall at Kudan in Tokyo.
The chairman of the Showa Shinseikai was Onisaburo Deguchi, and the vice chairman was Ryohei Uchida, a pioneer in the Japanese right-wing movement. Similarly, the head of the Konoe Cabinet was Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, and his appointed War Minister was Hideki Tojo, a right-wing militarist who later became prime minister.
[2]
- Dec. 8, 1935: The Second Omoto Incident
broke out.
- Dec. 8 (Japan time), 1941: Japan's attack
on Pearl Harbor triggered what the Japanese call the Pacific War.
The Tokkotai (special secret service police) launched a
sneak attack on Onisaburo, who stayed at Omoto's Matsue branch along Lake
Shinji, whereas the tokkotai (suicidal banzai unit) launched a sneak
attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet, which was at anchor along Pearl Harbor.
As an aside, the dawn of December 8 is the de facto birthday
of Buddhism, when Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment under the bo tree,
looking up at the bright morning star.
[3]
- Apr. 18, 1936: The holy sanctuaries of Ayabe
and Kameoka were unlawfully forfeited and sold.
- Apr. 18, 1942: The first aerial bombing of
Tokyo by U.S. aircraft.
Besides the forfeiture of Omoto's two holy sanctuaries, its local chapters
and other facilities were all destroyed. Onisaburo once said that Ayabe
was a model of the Grand Shrines of Ise (summit of all Japanese Shinto
shrines), and Kameoka, a model of Tokyo. Truly, 6 years later, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kobe and other big cities were bombed by sixteen U.S. aircraft. The Grand Shrines
of Ise were not spared, either.
[4]
- Sep. 8, 1945: The Supreme Court pronounced
Omoto innocent to end the perennial court battle.
- Sep. 8, 1951: Japan signed the peace
treaty in San Francisco to end the Pacific War and the ensuing occupation
by the Allied Forces.
The number of suspects who appealed it to the Supreme Court was
48 except Onisaburo and his wife Sumi. Meanwhile, the number of nations
which attended the signing of the peace accord in San Francisco was 48
except Japan.
The Second Omoto Incident was resolved on Sep. 8, 1945;
on the same day, General Douglas MacArthur and his 15,000 soldiers including
the 8,000 cavalry set foot on Japanese soil, making them the very first
foreign army to occupy the country since its foundation.
Incidentally, Onisaburo had been in jail for 6 years and 8 months,
or 2,435 days from Dec. 8, 1935 to Aug. 7, 1942 (including two leap
years), while Japan had been under the Allied occupation for 6 years and
8 months, or 2,435 days from Aug. 28, 1945 (when the Allied advance contingent
arrived at the air base in Atsugi) to Apr. 27, 1952 (the day before the
enactment of the peace treaty in San Francisco) (including two leap years).
The Second Omoto Incident had extended for 9 years and 9 months
from Dec. 8, 1935 to Sep. 8, 1945, while the Pacific War had lasted
for 9 years and 9 months from Dec. 8, 1941 to Sep. 8, 1951.
Just as Onisaburo abandoned the right to seek compensation for
the Second Omoto Incident, the Allied Powers abandoned their right to seek
indemnities from Japan. Just as the holy sanctuaries of Ayabe and Kameoka
were unconditionally reverted to Omoto, the Allied Nations reverted the
Japanese Archipelago undivided.
As miniature versions of Japan and the world, Omoto served bad models as well.
A classic example would be Hisa Fukushima, the third daughter of Foundress Nao Deguchi. Based on her revelations coming from wicked deities, Hisa made every effort to slander Onisaburo and get in his way. Herein lies the airtight plot of the Kami's drama. In other words, the Kami let Hisa play the villain to proactively create a model where evil deities would surrender to the Kami and repent.
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