Religious body hid Y1.4 bil by faking love hotel fees as offerings

Tuesday 09th June, 10:50 AM JST

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Crucifier99 at 10:49 PM JST - 9th June

Religions here are a complete farce, a money making setup for a selected few who do nothing in return to help the needy in society. Ikuta jinja uses the shrine premises as parking for the general public and I doubt they taxes on the parking fees they collect from those who pack to visit the mizushobai joints in sannomiya.
pandatJoya at 10:57 PM JST - 9th June

But the lovehotels here are associated with cheating, secrecy and deceit.

Crap. They are associated with privacy and discretion.

If it is a healthy way of life, then why don't people here openly talk about it.

Go ahead...

Why do we have the people in the hotels hiding their faces, hiding number plates etc..

Out of a sense of discretion? Sometimes even married couples or those in long-term, stable relationships don't want to advertise to anyone passing by that they are about to, or have just engaged in, a bit of nooky.
sharky1 at 11:10 PM JST - 9th June

They must have called them "love offerings".
usaexpat at 11:26 PM JST - 9th June

A religeous group running love hos, now that's a religeon I can believe in.
WilliB at 11:28 PM JST - 9th June

" "Uchu Shinri Gakkai, .... runs 23 love hotels" "

My kind of religion! Where can I join?
WilliB at 11:30 PM JST - 9th June

womanforwoman:

" Thanks to these love hotels, and other abnormal places and services that promote illicit affairs, there are many Jwives who suffer in silence. "

Sorry, but that is plain nonsense. Plenty of married couples go to love hotels, and happens inside is as "abnormal" as the participants want to make it. Don´t say you live in Japan and have never visited one? (With or without donating to Uchu Shinri Gakkai :-))
Molenir at 11:52 PM JST - 9th June

offerings made to the body

Good line regarding love hotels.
CultureChange at 12:03 AM JST - 10th June

You have gotta love it when religion secretly profits from sin. It really establishes thier priorities.....money.
usaexpat at 12:14 AM JST - 10th June

womanforwoman: WilliB is right, my wife and I don't have anywhere else to go but to a love hotel. When you have small children and are sharing a house with your in-laws there isn't much privacy if you catch my drift. Sure some people carry on affairs but many people are just like us. At the end of the day what business of yours is it what people do behind closed doors?
smithinjapan at 12:38 AM JST - 10th June

womanforwomen: "Maybe the Jwife who went with buggerlugs felt hopeless because her husband was cheating on her and so wanted to do the same."

I have no doubt that's the case sometimes. I also have no doubt it's not in others.

"I do admit that sometimes women cause the misery to themselves. They do not keep the flame burning. That is a totally different thing."

I'm glad you can admit that women sometimes cause misery to themselves, but it's a shame you cannot admit they cause misery to others. You completely destroy your own arguments by presenting them from some kind of attitude of superiority whilst still claiming to be a victim of some sort.

"aha so you are worried about something here!"

Nope. I just wanted to set the record straight that I never cheated with any of the married women who proffered themselves to me, and in a couple of cases even offered me money to do so. I was single at the time, and my reason for refusing was because I didn't want to take part in their cheating. THAT is what worried me -- what I would be doing to their families by taking part. Should I have been worried about something else?
zhazam05 at 08:23 AM JST - 10th June

Japan is one place where Privacy is SCARCE!! Many couples go there just to be alone,No Obasan, No kids ,Just each other.Some of these places are run by "wiseguys but that another story.
MrDarwin at 05:08 PM JST - 10th June

Religions shouldnt enjoy tax-exempt status. They should be outlawed because man should now be able to see beyond our superstitious roots in which religion was our first and worst attempt to explain the world around us in the absence of science. If you excuse the pun, I pray that one day people can relinquish the oppressive chains which destroy inquisitive thought and exploration.
abromofo at 03:56 PM JST - 11th June

Indeed. This has been touched on by several other posts, but in my opinion, a "Jwife suffering in slience" is partly responsible if her Jhusband takes his girlfriend to a love hotel. But really, banning love hotels just doesn't make a lot of sense if you're trying to say it would stop married Japanese married men from being naughty.

Do you know the law regarding infidelity in Japan? If a spouse has an affair, the other spouse can sue the 3rd person! That means a suffering Jwife can sue her husband's girlfriend. You would think that was a bit of a deterrent.
ultradodgy at 11:04 AM JST - 12th June

Offerings made for the body!! ROTMFFL!!!
SiouxGirl at 12:52 PM JST - 14th June

Oh, this is all kinds of hilarious. All the comments are also interesting. I don't think getting rid of love hotels will fix the problem of cheating spouses. They'll just find somewhere else to meet up.