Urban Legend
You cannot find a foreigner in Tokyo who believes that story and believe me I have asked many.
It floated around as a story in the 1950s, then floated in the 1900s, Snopes and others looked into it. Oh well. Lots of stuff on the internet these days, but certainly not all of it is true. I WILL vouch for what my own eyes have seen year in and year out. Please enjoy the photos from 2 years ago. Merry Christmas! And I will add on some new ones.
Not urban myth. It actually happened. Maybe his story started it all. His name is Ira, and he is a writer and now an English professor at SUNY.
Here in America we use Buddhist's shrine statues as paper weights, and shinto wands as dusters. Who knew?
Sacrilege is a very relative thing.The Japanese have a sort of pristine innocence about religion in general, and few talk much about it , as you know.So putting the wrong figure on a cross is not that far out. It has probably happened more than once.
I sort of like the story.When cultures mix, funny things can happen, and one has to have a sense of humor about those situations.
