The character Rei Hino from Sailor Moon is a miko in her civilian form and is shown to use Shintoist shamanistic abilities such as dispelling evil forces with an ofuda and divining the future.

In the United States, the earliest published usage known is a Philippine Republic article written in January 1924 by Dr. J. Juliano, a member of the faculty of the Schurz school in Chicago-" Why does a Pinoy take it as an insult to be taken for a Shintoist or a Confucian?

* Atsutane Hirata, a Shintoist famous for diatribes against Buddhism ( ch. 22-23 )

A census of 409 students in three schools showed that only 21 acknowledged any faith ; of these, there were 15 Buddhists, 4 Christians, 1 Confucian, and 1 Shintoist.

They were served at the Imperial Court and offered to Shintoist and Buddhist deities.

Japanese Shintoist and Buddhist bells are used in religious ceremonies.

******* Toranosuke Hashimoto: Commanding Officer, Manchu Secret Police, Hsinking, Manchuria ( as a branch of the Kempeitai intelligence unit in Manchukuo ); First Priest in Manchoukuan Shintoist Central Temple, Military Hachiman, Hsinking Shrine ; and National Foundation, a cultural organization in Manchukuo.

One can hear an early echo of the problem of identity, for example, in the narrative of struggles between ' nativist ' ( Shintoist ) and Sinophile factions at the dawn of Japanese history, as recounted in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki.

The Kojiki records the Shintoist creation myth that the god Izanagi and the goddess Izanami gave birth to the Ōyashima ( 大八州 " Eight Great Islands ") of Japan, the last of which was Yamato.

Due to the Honji suijaku theory which claimed the local kami were incarnations of Buddhist gods, Kotohira shrine was in times prior to the Meiji era equally a Buddhist and a Shintoist sanctuary.

* Mononobe no Moriya – From the Mononobe clan powerful in ancient times, he was part of the anti-Buddhist faction, and defeated by the allied forces of Soga no Umako and Prince Shōtoku.

Although there are a few indications that the Chinese knew of a trade route through Ladakh to India as early as the Kushan period ( 1st to 3rd centuries AD ), and certainly by Tang dynasty, little is actually known of the history of the region before the formation of the kingdom towards the end of the 10th century by the Tibetan prince, Skyid lde nyima gon ( or Nyima gon ), a grandson of the anti-Buddhist Tibetan king, Langdarma ( r. c. 838 to 841 ).

His wars are campaigns of defence against hostile powers intent on subduing the kingdom of gLing, which are often construed as anti-Buddhist.

Buddhist monks from Khotan ( Li ), fleeing the persecutions of an anti-Buddhist king, were given refuge by Kim-sheng about 737.

The rise of anti-Buddhist factions in Tibet following the death of the Chinese princess began to blame the epidemic on the support of Buddhism by the king and queen.

In a media interview, Nhu said that if the Buddhist crisis was not resolved, he would stage a coup, quickly demolish the Xá Lợi pagoda, where the Buddhists were massing to coordinate their activities, and head a new anti-Buddhist government.

The general trend of Buddhism in the latter half of the Goryeo was a decline due to corruption, and the rise of strong anti-Buddhist political and philosophical sentiment.

Moreover, a new and rapidly growing Neo-Confucian ideological movement of stridently anti-Buddhist inclination gained political power.

The most noteworthy of these was the Queen Munjeong, who, as a devout Buddhist, took control of the government in the stead of her young son Myeongjong ( r. 1545 – 67 ), and immediately repealed many anti-Buddhist measures.

In the 1980s, President Chun Doo-hwan, a Methodist, adopted anti-Buddhist policies and attempted to restrict Buddhist activities.

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the new government adopted a strong anti-Buddhist attitude, and a movement to eradicate Buddhism and bring Shinto to ascendancy arose throughout the country due to the strong connections of Buddhism to the Shoguns.

Ennin was in China when the anti-Buddhist emperor Wuzong of Tang took the throne in 840, and he lived through the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution of 842-846.

The fourth enclosure wall bears 5 m garuda s holding naga ( mythology ) | naga s. Buddha images in the niches above were destroyed in the anti-Buddhist reaction of Jayavarman VIII.

The walls are decorated with apsaras ; Buddha images in niches above them were destroyed in the anti-Buddhist reaction under Jayavarman VIII.

During the rule of King Sasanka and feudatory chief Madhav Raj-II, many anti-Buddhist campaigns were undertaken.

Using Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucian philosophy as the basis of his anti-Buddhist polemic, he criticized Buddhism in a number of treatises as being corrupt in its practices, and nihilistic and antinomian in its doctrines.

This event is of great historical importance partly because it triggered the haibutsu kishaku, a violent anti-Buddhist movement which in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate and during the Meiji Restoration caused the forcible closure of thousands of Buddhist temples, the confiscation of their land, the forced return to lay life of monks, and the destruction of books, statues and other Buddhist property.

He eventually became South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, but resigned in protest in 1963, denouncing his government's anti-Buddhist policies.

* An anti-Buddhist poem by Kohei Tomobayashi, recited by Sawa ( ch. 26 )

The tendency to oppose Buddhism can be seen already during the early modern era as a nationalistic reaction to its spreading but the term usually indicates the anti-Buddhist movement that, from the middle of the Edo period onwards, accompanied Confucianism, the study of ancient Japanese literature and culture ( kokugaku ), and Shinto nationalism, all movements with reasons to oppose Buddhism.

This last event is of particular historical importance, partly because it triggered the haibutsu kishaku, a violent anti-Buddhist movement which in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate and during the Meiji Restoration caused the forcible closure of thousands of temples, the confiscation of their land, the forced return to lay life of monks, and the destruction of books, statues and other Buddhist property.

It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.

Contrarily, Republican `` volunteers '' go their separate ways, and thus far have given no indication that they'd be willing to join forces under a single directorate, except in the most loose-knit fashion.

The experiments of Romagnosi and others have already been noted but no one had determined the cause-and-effect relationship between these two primary forces.

Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.

Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.

Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to the Turkish side ; and, seeing this, " the Western mercenaries rode off and took no part in the battle.

Additionally, if we assume that there are no viscous forces in the medium ( the bulk and shear viscosities are zero ), the momentum equation takes the form

As Jacques Revel notes, the success of the Annales School, especially its use of social structures as explanatory forces contained the seeds of its own downfall, for there is " no longer any implicit consensus on which to base the unity of the social, identified with the real.

If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).

In one paragraph he wrote: " The laws of this country will of course, be introduced in South Wales, and there is one that I would wish to take place from the moment his Majesty's forces take possession of the country: That there can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves ", and he meant what he said.

With no serious external or internal threats, the armed forces are searching for a new role.

The professional army was to be no more than 20, 000 men, including internal forces and border guard.

Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.

The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

The UK had given aid to the royalist Greek forces and ELAS leaders who, failing to realize that there would be no Soviet aid and having boycotted the elections, were at a disadvantaged position.

In December 1990, with Libyan assistance and no opposition from French troops stationed in Chad, Déby ’ s forces successfully marched on N ’ Djamena.

French forces flew in ammunition for Chadian government troops but took no active part in the fighting.

By 1973, the CPK were fighting battles against government forces with little or no North Vietnamese troop support, and they controlled nearly 60 % of Cambodia's territory and 25 % of its population.

Costa Rica has no military but maintains domestic Police and armed National Guard forces securing its interests.

Costa Rica maintains small forces capable of law enforcement and foreign peacekeeping, but has no permanent standing army.

These are the issue of Royal Prerogative where the reigning monarch may continue to exercise power under certain very limited circumstances, Sovereign Immunity where they are considered to have done no wrong under the law, and may avoid both taxation and planning permission for example, and considerable ceremonial power where the executive, judiciary, police and armed forces owe allegiance to the Crown.