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Happy Science, the Glossary

, formerly known as the Institute for Research in Human Happiness, is a new religious movement founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by former Wall Street trader Ryuho Okawa, whose followers regarded him as the incarnation of a supreme being from Venus.^[1]

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Japanese new religions
Religious organizations based in Japan
Religious organizations established in 1986

Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Anime News Network

Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs, or related fiction/non-fiction excerpts by different authors.

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Aum Shinrikyo

, better known by their former name, is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. Happy Science and Aum Shinrikyo are cults and Japanese new religions.

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Ōtsu

Ōtsu City Hall is the capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Clergy

Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.

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Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.

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Confucius

Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Cult

A cult is a group requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society, which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader who tightly controls its members. Happy Science and cult are cults.

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Elohim

Elohim, the plural of rtl, is a Hebrew word meaning "gods" or "godhood".

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Fumika Shimizu

is a Japanese actress, gravure idol and model.

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Happiness Realization Party

The, abbreviated as Kōfuku, is a Japanese political party founded by Ryuho Okawa on 23 May 2009. Happy Science and Happiness Realization Party are Japanese new religions and religious organizations based in Japan.

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Hermes

Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Japanese new religions

Japanese new religions are new religious movements established in Japan.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Nanjing Massacre

The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Nasu, Tochigi

is a town located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.

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New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. Happy Science and new religious movement are cults.

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Nichiren

Nichiren (16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest and philosopher of the Kamakura period.

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North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.

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Odin

Odin (from Óðinn) is a widely revered god in Germanic paganism.

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Osiris

Osiris (from Egyptian wsjr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.

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Ryuho Okawa

Ryuho Okawa (大川隆法; Ōkawa Ryūhō; born Takashi Nakagawa (中川隆; Nakagawa Takashi), 7 July 1956 – 2 March 2023) was a Japanese religious and political leader who was the CEO and founder of the Happy Science and the Happiness Realization Party.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shueisha

is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Sutra

Sutra (translation)Monier Williams, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Entry for, page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.

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Tenshi ni I'm Fine

Tenshi ni I'm Fine (is a 2016 Japanese fantasy drama film written and directed by Hideto Sonoda. It was released in Japan by Nikkatsu on March 19, 2016.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The Laws of the Universe

The Laws of the Universe (Japanese: UFO学園の秘密 Hepburn: UFO Gakuen no Himitsu) is a Japanese animated film series consisting of four films, produced by HS Pictures Studio.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer (Uganda)

The Weekly Observer is a Ugandan weekly newspaper headquartered in Kamwookya, Kampala.

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The Real Exorcist

The Real Exorcist is a film produced by HS Productions.

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The Rebirth of Buddha

is a Japanese animated movie produced by the new religious movement, Happy Science.

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The World (radio program)

The World is a public radio international news magazine co-produced by the WGBH Educational Foundation and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and co-hosted by Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler.

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Thoth

Thoth (from Θώθ Thṓth, borrowed from Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout, Egyptian:, the reflex of ḏḥwtj " is like the ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity.

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Tokyo subway sarin attack

The was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.

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Toyota Tsusho

is a sōgō shōsha (trading company), a member of the Toyota Group.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company.

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Vihāra

Vihāra generally refers to a Buddhist monastery for Buddhist renunciates, mostly in the Indian subcontinent.

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VX (nerve agent)

VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Science

Also known as Institute for Research in Human Happiness, Kofoku no Kagaku, Kofuku no Kagaku, Kyoufuku no Kagaku, Kōfuku no Kagaku, The Happy Science, The Institute for Research in Human Happiness, .

, VX (nerve agent).

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See also

Japanese new religions

Religious organizations based in Japan

Religious organizations established in 1986

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