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That's the image of funeral Buddhism: that it doesn't meet people's spiritual needs. In Islam or Christianity, they hold sermons on spiritual matters. But in Japan nowadays, very few Buddhist priests do that.

Thursday 17th July, 05:18 AM JST

Ryoko Mori, the chief priest at the 700-year-old Zuikoji Temple in northern Japan, responding to statistics that show a decline in Buddhism in Japan. (New York Times)

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