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Posted on 11/19/2025 7:43:01 PM PST by xxqqzz
A surgeon who has practiced in Manhattan for nearly three decades may be extradited to his native Japan to face charges of damaging two ancient religious sites, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
The ruling means that the extradition of the doctor, Masahide Kanayama, will most likely be carried out. The U.S. State Department, which has the final say on extraditions, said last month that it would authorize the step. The Justice Department has said that it would delay any removal until the doctor’s legal appeals were complete.
Dr. Kanayama, 63, is an expert in endometriosis, a gynecologic condition in which cells similar to those in the uterine lining grow outside the uterus. He is also a Christian who says that when guided by faith, medicine becomes a way to serve God by serving others. Legions of patients have described how his surgeries alleviated their crippling pain and, in some cases, allowed them to have children.
But in 2015, the Japanese authorities say, Dr. Kanayama left an oily liquid on a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Tokyo and, less than an hour later, on a nearby Shinto shrine founded in 643 B.C. during the reign of Japan’s first emperor.
The authorities said they had traced the acts to Dr. Kanayama through surveillance footage at the two sites along with car rental, toll and flight records. They also cited YouTube videos from 2012 that showed a man Japanese officials said was Dr. Kanayama talking about anointing shrines with oil for religious purposes. Japan asked the United States to extradite Dr. Kanayama, a request he has been fighting ever since.
Two federal judges have ruled in recent years that Dr. Kanayama’s case meets the legal standard for extradition.
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A little Dawn, and everyone relax.
Japanese prisons are no joke.
He’s gonna do some hard time.
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For such an educated man. that was a very stupid thing to do. He has to know how the Japanese revere their statues, temples and shrines. They will NOT just let it go, especially not, when the vandal is an outsider.
He should have accepted some sort of fine, written a respectfully large check and been done with it long time ago.
NY Times slant of course.
They want to protect rapists murderers etc…
But some guy puts olive oil on something 12 years ago and they think he should be deported.
It is a news article not an opinion piece.
Fine the hell out of him and I mean big bucks. Give him a suspended sentence of several years and bar him from entry to Japan forever. Set foot on Japan ever again and your several years sentence is enforced.
Fine the hell out of him and I mean big bucks. Give him a suspended sentence of several years and bar him from entry to Japan forever. Set foot on Japan ever again and your several years sentence is enforced.
“... left an oily liquid on a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Tokyo and, less than an hour later, on a nearby Shinto shrine...”
Send him back. He’s not stable enough to be a surgeon here.
Yes.
In all their articles there is a tone reflecting opinion.
“ But in 2015, the Japanese authorities say, Dr. Kanayama left an oily liquid on a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Tokyo and, less than an hour later, on a nearby Shinto shrine founded in 643 B.C. during the reign of Japan’s first emperor.
The authorities said they had traced the acts to Dr. Kanayama through surveillance footage at the two sites along with car rental, toll and flight records. They also cited YouTube videos from 2012 that showed a man Japanese officials said was Dr. Kanayama talking about anointing shrines with oil for religious purposes. ”
I don’t know of any Christian practices of “anointing” non-Christian religious sites.
The ‘Iron Fist’ of Buddhism!
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