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  • US Navy allows sailors in Japan to engage in Shinto Religion Ceremony (Photos)

    10/29/2007 12:06:39 AM PDT · by AmericanInTokyo · 54 replies · 415+ views
    Japanese News sources and US Military, Japan ^ | 29 October 2007 | AmericaninTokyo
    Not to "step on anybody's rice bowl" here, but does anyone besides me find this a bit IRONIC??Here we have a case where we are told by The Pentagon back in the States that military funerals, involving a time-honored tradition of flag-folding, must be "religiously cleansed", and other references for example to Jesus Christ kept out of Chaplains' public comments.All the while, here in Japan, just one week ago (as in previous years), the US Navy's Commander of Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) and MWR Office officially sanctioned, paid for, or otherwise arranged American sailors to parade through the streets in...