NOTE FROM DORONOKI

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Are We Safe With This Much Defoliant?

2018-08-01 20:51:46 | 日記

 I may be counted as one of the many Buddhist in the world, but in Japan, Buddhism is not a religion for most of the people called Buddhist. We don’t believe in what is said in Buddhism. It is a kind of custom or cultural tradition, and many of us need temples and priests only for funerals. I, myself don’t need them even on my funeral, I’m telling to my family.

    In summer Buddhists have a day when we believe(?) the souls of our ancestors come back home and visit us, and family members get together and visit their graves.

    Yesterday my husband and I went to our family’s graveyard to clean it before the day. We cut grasses and wild vines and swept them away in the heat. Then a man who has the graveyard next to ours came up and scattered something in his area, and went away. It was defoliant. His graveyard has been clean without any grasses, but color brown in the summer. His family lives next to us, and they use the defoliant for their vegetable garden and yard. It has no weeds, although my family struggle with weeds everyday.

    It is well known that defoliant was used in Vietnam War by the US army, and it has caused serious disease on both Vietnamese and US soldiers. But now we see a huge area of defoliant bottles and packages in every store that sells things for farming. All this will be used on the farms and gardens!!  I feel dizzy. Many might, or want to, believe the note on the package which tells “No Harm on Human Being” No way!