I'll find links if I can. However, it has been confirmed by several of my Japanese friends. Sometimes things are real even if you don't have "links" for them.
In a forum setting like this, people demand links to substantiate their positions.
I'll do the same by asking you to substantiate your claims...
Would be interested in the details of your claims, so far you have been vague about them..
By claiming you "heard it from a Japanese friend" is not good enough for me or anyone else on this forum and so far you have also been very vague about the allegations...
I know she's done a lot of good, but I despise hero worship.
Who's worshipping Saito Yuki, if anything she stood against the norm in Japan and stirred things up a bit and probably got most she worked for ticked off..
Where I served, ALL businesses were open on Sunday and this presented a challenge to the people we taught, since they could not get off on Sunday to come to church.
One investigator read the Book of Mormon several times on his way to work on the train and had, what he called, "God/Kamisama" appear to him face to face as he was lying in bed. He came frantically knocking on our door and said "God/Kamisama" appeared to me and said "God/Kamisama" said to him, "why haven't you joined the church ???".
We were surprised to, say the least, I often wondered who appeared to him, was it God/Jesus, an angel, a deceased relative ???
He claimed it was "God/Kamisama," but then again, if a resurrected being appeared to him it could have been anyone..
We knew we would never know for sure.
He stated the biggest reason he could not join the church is because he had to work all day Sunday, every Sunday, and could not risk asking for it off, in order to join and attend church on Sunday.
He was the last investigator before I left Japan.
Japanese small business owners closed their doors on Monday or Tuesday it seemed, or whichever was their slowest day, in order to take a day off, but never on a Sunday would they close their doors..
I remember, distinctly, a big news event, after I recently returned home to the states. A Japanese business man died on his way home from work, he was in his 30's and had worked for years, 7 days a week, until he literally died of exhaustion.
I've tried to working 7 days a week, without a day off, and felt like I was nearly going to pass out, just doing that 3 or 4 weeks in a row, about 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Then I tried it again a few years later, I gave into works demands/main boss and did it for a couple of weeks and got in a motorcycle accident and was out of work for a year.
IT"S NOT WORTH IT....
I look at people like Saito Yuki as examples of standing up for what they believe in, in spite of the opposition...
Being LDS in a Buddhist dominated country and exherting her rights to not work on Sunday speaks volumes to me...
I told work, point a gun to my head, I'm not working on Sunday...
IT'S NOT WORTH IT...
Bad stuff has happens to me when I gave into pressure and work Sundays.
I won't ever do it again. and as a result I will also never run a store again, which I've done on two different occasions, one with an owner who allowed me to close the doors on Sunday, and once with the same owner who would not allow me to close the doors on Sunday.. They tricked me one time by saying go run the store and we'll let you close the doors on Sunday and then later recanted their offer and I told them I would rather leave the company, they quickly gave me a bonus and put me in another store as an assistant manager..
I will not and cannot ever run my own store again, because it means asking others to work on Sunday, which I also refuse to do, so all I can do is be an assistant, which is half the pay as the main manager, but I don't need anymore than I have now, I have enough and plenty to spare, even as an assistant and it's just the pizza biz...or I could, of course, work somewhere else that's closed on Sunday, but I feel I am where I'm supposed to be...
The main owner was an active LDS member, he just sold out a few weeks ago and he opened all his stores on Sunday and I couldn't convince him to do otherwise. He just sold out to his partner, who is an inactive LDS member, as far as I know . never really asked him, just assumed, since he knew all about how things worked in the church, but never said he was a member or ever went to church, and he will never close the doors on Sunday, he has made that clear, and he still doesn't understand why I won't work on Sunday or manage a store for him, even though he begs me too and sometimes threatens, I just tell him you are discriminating against me because of my religious beliefs, which dictate to me not to work on Sunday and he backs off and scratches his head. He doesn't get it, nor do most people.
I was offered a management position in another business that was closed on Sunday and they are doing extremely well, but for some reason I felt uneasy about it and passed it up, making a lot more money. Money isn't my motivator, happiness is.. I am happy here and feel this is where I should be..
Before the current owners took over, the previous owner, whom I had known and worked for back in the day in 1984, closed the doors on Sunday, when he took over 4 of the stores and we did more business than we are currently doing now, with little or no advertising..
The current owners spend 3 or 4 thousand dollars a month on advertising for each story and are doing less business than the previous owner, who probably spent a couple hundred dollars, if that even, or no dollars on advertising that I was aware of and the business was fine and continued to make a profit...
Closing a business on Sunday makes a bisiness flourish, I've seen it work...
I'm a professional freelance translator. My work includes complicated medical and legal documents and some easy stuff in the hospitality industry.
Good for you, seriously, sounds like a great job, and I'm, of course, well aware of the challenge of reading and writing Kanji and the struggle it must be to translate it...
Sorry if I offended you earlier..
Did I burst your bubble this time?
I knew you were well versed in the Japanese language, but not to that extent.
Reading and writing kanji takes years to be fluent in, as you are well aware of..
I only studied one semester of kanji at the University of Utah and quickly abandoned the idea of being prolifent in that area, what a challenge, no doubt, I feel sorry for those cultures who have to deal with this style of writing, it's a definite challenge, but I like the challenge to a certain degree, it's fun to recognize certain kanji and be able to read a sentence or two or be able to finally recognize certain kanji which helps you in every day life in Japan......
I obviously don't know what level your at, and don't want to offend you again, just want a solid link, not just "a friend told me," or "there was a news/press conference".
I need more solid evidence and I'm sure their may be others reading this thead who might want the same, not that it would make any diffence though, just so we can know one way or the other if your unsubtantiated claim is true or not.
This is a demanding forum, I can't just say God is real, or I've seen Jesus, the three Nephites or an angel, for example, without any evidence to back up my claims.
Some things
are real, whether we have evidences or links, to back our claims, but this is something that can be substanted by providing a link to a news conference, in Japanese, printed or video/audio link. .
Please provide evidence to your claims, otherwise it's just unsubstantiated gossip.
