The Missionary Activities Of Japanese Tenrikyo In China

Japanese Tenrikyo is a new religion founded by Miki Nakayama in 1838.It is called "the three new religions at the end of the Edo period" together with the Hurosumikyo and Kongokyo of the same period.During the period of social upheaval and reform during the "reform at the end of the stage",the nature religion founded by Miki Nakayama broke the shackled thought of the previous Japanese religions--Shinto and Buddhism,opposed the belief in the afterlife,and advocated people to pursue the earthly interests.Oppose power and oppression,and advocate equality and fraternity.Based on such an idea,naturalism takes "saving the world" as its ultimate goal,and actively carries out missionary activities in order to realize "vigorous and healthy life".After the Meiji restoration,the Japanese government to set up the Japanese national consciousness,national consciousness,maintain the control of the emperor,will establish Shinto for the church of England,to establish "the statue of the emperor,patriotic,worship god" of the national code of ethics,increase the control of life,thought and enlightenment to the public,to "is not doctrine" launched a severe blow and repression.In 1896,the ministry of internal affairs issued a ban order against the natural science church,which temporarily stalled its development in Japan.In order to get rid of this decadence,nature education began to try to open up overseas missionary land,and successively established churches in Taiwan and northeast China,which opened the prologue of nature education overseas missionary work.After the death of its founder,zhongshan meiju,the religious group gave up the opposition with the Japanese government and obtained the independent qualification of "religious Shinto" and became a legal religion after revising the doctrine for many times,and finally integrated into the line of "national enlightenment" of the Japanese government.After the first world war,great changes took place in the situation in Asia.The idea of "japanism" developed in Tenrikyo,and Japan was whitewashed as the "saviour" of Asia and even the world through the "interpretationof the original Canon movement",which provided a religious ideological basis for Japan's colonial aggression and its own colonial mission.On the other hand,the expansion of Japanese interests in China has also provided a guarantee for the missionary activities of nature education in China.The cooperative relationship between nature education and the Japanese government has formed,and the missionary work in China has become the main "cause" of nature education.For this reason,natural science education established relevant research institutions and language schools to train overseas missionary talents.However,in the process of preaching to Chinese people,although adequate preparations have been made,the missionary activities of nature education in China are extremely difficult due to the diversity of Chinese culture and the deteriorating relations between China and Japan.After the outbreak of the war of aggression against China,in order to further obtain the support of the Japanese military and government,the nature religion's power was matched with its aggressive policy in China,and its missionary mode in China was further expanded.In the Japanese occupied areas,under the support of the Japanese invaders,the mission set up a large number of Japanese language schools,with the intention of absorbing believers through Japan's "propaganda work" in China.In northeast China,tianli church has carried out the construction of "tianli village in manchuria",which plans to immigrate tianli believers to northeast China and carry out missionary activities while carrying out agricultural production.