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Religion and state row in Japan

Fri, 2009-11-27 10:39 — ABN

A row over separation of religion and the state has broken out in Japan after Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, said in a speech in a Buddhist temple that Christianity was “a self-righteous religion that excluded other religions.” He said Christianity was at a dead-end (or, in some translations, “at an impasse”). Islam was somewhat better, he claimed, but “it too excludes other religions.” But he had fulsome praise for Buddhism, which he deemed “magnanimous.”

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