The olympic volunteer in Rio Olympic games had risen as a volunteer harassment trouble.
Most of the olympic volunteers in Rio were unpaid, unable to get some food and drink for eight to ten hours a day without taking a rest.
In Rio, the basic problem laid on the political and economical confusion. But, the situation is very different in Japan.
It is very common in Japan that the bureaucratic officials concern any religious authority, NPO, NGO and other voluntary groups as "convenient free-workers to use".
Bureaucrats and politicians settle NPO, NGO or other government-supported authority to make up "one more parachute employer" after their retirement. Those parachuted NPO and NGO usually do no useful work, but get prior support from the official budget.
So, "real volunteers" in Japan always need to concern two theme. One is "how & where to receive the enough support or donation to manage the volunteer group?". The other is "how to take the proper distance not to be enslaved by the local and central government official?".
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| Kyoto Catholic Church on about 19890 |
Catholic churches, monasteries and convent has been keeping some kind of qualification on the social voluntary work in Japan.
First, churches, monasteries and convent stand for Christians welfare and those who have been abandoned by Japanese society such as a single mother girl who refused to have an abortion which is concerned preferable in this society.
Second, all the personal or group volunteers set an aim and purposes on the voluntary work clearly in the group, and do the limited works in voluntary spirit according to the Christianity.
Political gains were prior to the religious goodness since end of seventeenth century in Japan, when Ieyasu Tokugawa Shogunate preferred to sacrifice the Catholic villagers along with survivor samurai of Toyotomi's Eastern forces.
Chasing Christianity as the common enemy of all the Nipponism religion was the most convenient way to settle the sustainable central government for Ieyasu Tokugawa.
The cause of persecution was a faked reasoning to reject the slave trade to European countries at that time also.
Ieyasu Tokugawa lost his long-term inherited land of Suruga(present Shizuoka area), and gain the present Tokyo area where was shoal, empty lot with few fishermen and farmers living. Hence Ieyasu was planning to build a big cosmopolitan city, he asked refugees from all over the Japan include the war refugees from Korean Peninsula.
To gather so many male labours, his grandson had built a big amusement prostitute city called "Yoshiwara". At that time, so many orphans & widows could find job in Yoshiwara, and some even had found a new partner to marry.
But, Ieyasu needed to hide his purpose until he finally make up the Shogunate dynasty include refusing the export of slaves to overseas.
At the end of Edo period, all these political situation were forgotten, but the persecution toward all kind of religious authorities which argue on the freedom of religious faith to save "goodness" in us.
So many sect or temples of Buddhism were also faced and ruined by the persecution during Edo period.
And Meiji government wanted to make up partly Christianized Shintoism, for the nationalists misunderstood the Christian church as the religious authority with hierarchy, which is under governmental control.
So, whatsoever the Christians do voluntary, is concerned as the social utility value, only. No bureaucrats would appreciate and encourage the Christian mission no matter how much we contribute to the Japanese social welfare.
It is so called as "volunteer harassment" in Japan.
The volunteer harassment problems is very common in Japan. Once Mission of Charity convent of brothers had left Japan, because the civic center asked them not to do Mass and Liturgy of Hours in the convent if they want to live with homeless men in the same household. According to the civic office, the Mission of Charity is against the constitution article 20th, which guarantee all the human being in Japan not to forced any religious worships.
It is just a sophistry, hence no one who are regular workers in a hospital or nursery home cannot refuse the Shintoism ritual the hospital do to purify the dead spirits who died in a hospital or nursery home!
The volunteer harassment happens for pet sitters, animal rights activists also. Those who are too eager to accept both bureaucratic requests, and human or animal right order, many commit suicide due to overwork and stress.
Hope we will find some way to talk over the volunteer harassment problem with Japanese bureaucrats, but, they won't listen to the voices they wouldn't accept anyway.
Pease pray for us.
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