My brain hurts...maybe I shouldn't have ate those brains? This episode covers everything in it's provocative title AND MORE! Listen to Mike pretend to speak Chinese! Oh, and one last "tidbit" of a programming note. All the jars along the walls in "ye olde timey apothecary shoppe" in the thumb art? Gonna go out on a limb and say that probably around 80% of them? Various jars of misc. animal piss. It's a safe assumption. ALSO! Coverage of yet another occult/ritual murder(s?) tied to this topic! AND YES! The terms "ragu/jazz" in this particular context are indeed code for menstrual blood and seminal fluid, respectively. Now here's your SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannibalism#See_also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicines_derived_from_the_human_body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacamantecas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal

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SOURCES (part 2): Yomiuri Shinbun, Sept 11–14, 1934: “Asakusa Lens Sect Under Fire”

Mainichi Shinbun, Oct 1934: “Families Warned of Spirit Fraud”

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Memo, File #1183-9-1934, partial summary republished in:

Sakai, Eiji. “Occult Photography and Grief Commerce in Showa Japan,” Jōhō to Bunka, Vol. 5, 1998.

Abe, Ryuji, Dark Lenses: Spirit Photography in Japan 1900–1950, Tokyo University Press, 2004.

Wakayama Prefectural Mental Health Archive

Case file: “WAK-PMH-1936-43-K” — Entry on Kagawa Seiji

Diagnosis under prewar code: “精神神秘病第七号”

Tenri University Religious Studies Archive

Collection: "Shin Shūkyō Shiryō-shū" (New Religions Documents Collection), folder on Kagawa

Hand-copied excerpts of Kagawa’s scrolls labeled: “KAMIKAGAMI-A-6/7”

Wakayama Shinbun (Local newspaper), Oct. 3–9, 1936 issues

Kōyasan University Thesis Series:

Ichijō Masami (1969): “Mirror and Sky in Proto-UFO Mysticism”

“Shūkyō to Seishin Byōri” (Religion and Psychiatric Illness), Nihon Iryō Shakai Gakkai, 1981

Grapard, Allan G.

The Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History (University of California Press, 1992).

Teeuwen, Mark and Rambelli, Fabio

Budddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History (Continuum, 2003).

The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 1998).

Hori Ichiro

Japanese Folk Religion (University of Chicago Press, 1968, translated).

B. Modern Revivalism, Fringe Thought, and Ultra-nationalism

Amino Yoshihiko

Rethinking Japanese History (University of Tokyo Press, translated by Alan Christy).

Miyata Noboru

Ueda Masaaki

Connections to State Control and Secret Research

Barrett, David P. & Shyu, Larry N. (eds.)

Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II (Free Press, 1989).

CIA-RDP78-00915R000600280008-5

Genyōsha (Black Ocean Society)

Kaplan, David. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld (1991)

Kaplan & Dubro, Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan’s Criminal Underworld

H. Neill McFarland, The Rush Hour of the Gods (1970)

Kokuryūkai (Black Dragon Society)

Richard Deacon, A History of the Japanese Secret Service (1983)

Boyé Lafayette De Mente, The Japanese Samurai Code

Walter Skya, Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism (2009)

Tenkōkai (Heavenly Light Society)

Ian Reader, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo

H. Byron Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity

Ōmoto (Omotokyō)

Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Omoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan

Helen Hardacre, Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

Hitonomichi Kyōdan (Way of the Human Path Sect)

Winston Davis, Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigms of Structure and Change

Ulrich Möhwald (ed.), Changing Japanese Suburbs

Taireidō (Great Spirit Path Movement)

Jean Herbert, Shinto: At the Fountainhead of Japan

Ichiro Hori, Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change

Ian Reader, Religion in Contemporary Japan

Helen Hardacre, Shintō and the State, 1868–1988

CIA-RDP82-00457R007100340003-1

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP80-00926A005200100001-6

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP78-03425A002500080001-0

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP82-00457R000400190003-9

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP83-00415R007100040010-5

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP83-00423R001000050004-9

CREST Record Number: CIA-RDP78-04864A000100040013-0

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Wooooooooooo! This one gets pretty fucked up! Lots of bad stuff in this one! Occult murders, far right ultra-nationalist mysticism, spirit possession cases, roving tumors (yeah I said it!), "schools" for "spiritually gifted"/"psychic" children, future America's roadmap to theocratic terror! It's all in here!

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The Japanese Imperial March on Nanking in 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cufG2Dlxvk

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SOURCES (part 1...I probably won't have enough room to post all the sources so I'm just gonna do the best I can):

- “Occultism and Empire” by Hideo Suzuki

- National Diet Library Reports on “New Religions” (1940, declassified 1978)

- *The Occult in Imperial Japan* by M. Sugimoto (Kyoto Press, 1991)

- Translated excerpts from *Asahi Shimbun* newspaper (1912–1941)

- Internal notes from Japanese Imperial Home Ministry on spiritualist surveillance (via National Diet Library)

Primary Legal and Police Documents (Japanese Archives)

These are often stored in regional police history volumes or court reports:

Kyoto District Court Records (1916) – Case No. 明治45年(刑)第211号

Sexual abuse trial of self-proclaimed “Buddhist healer” using "aetheric alignment."

Held in Prefectural Archive Annex – Kyoto.

Tokyo Prefectural Police Report (1912): Raid on “House of Light”

Metropolitan Police Bureau internal memo (警視庁内部報) dated June 1912.

Refers to "Hikari no Ie" (House of Light) fraud exposure and material seizures.

Nagoya Police Bureau Case File (1921) – Trance Murder Case (大正10年)

Cited in Nagoya Shinbun, March 3–7, 1921.

Interview excerpts with surviving cult members.

Osaka Juvenile Affairs Unit Memo (1933) – Missing Child Following Séance

Memo recovered in 1991 during restructuring of Osaka PD archives.

Associated Case Code: 昭和8年(少)第17号.

Newspaper and Periodical Sources

Accessible in national microfilm archives or Meiji/Taishō-era digital collections:

Asahi Shinbun (Tokyo), May–July 1922

Coverage of the “trance-induced investment scam” by a self-proclaimed magnetist.

Yomiuri Shinbun (Nagoya), March 1921

Séance killing involving attempted possession by Amaterasu.

Public trial of sect leader in April.

Mainichi Shinbun (Osaka), June–August 1933

Ongoing reports about the child disappearance tied to spiritist group.

Investigative journalism hints at a larger child relocation ring.

Academic and Ethnographic Works

Mostly Japanese-language, with some English-language citations:

Helen Hardacre – Shinto and the State, 1868–1988 (Princeton, 1989)

References suppression of folk shamanic groups and "special schools."

Itō Takeshi – Religious Deviance and the Japanese State (1981, in Japanese)

Discusses early state efforts to contain cult activity in Meiji and Taishō periods.

Murakami Shigeyoshi – The Spiritualist Schools and Militarism in Prewar Japan (1977)

Touches on psychic child “grooming” and Imperial Army cooperation.

Sakurai Tokutarō – Spiritual Healing and the Decline of Imperial Morality (1934)

A critical text written before WWII censored by the Home Ministry.

Modern Compilations and Retrospectives

These offer historical summaries based on recovered documents or oral histories:

Hayashi, Noriko – “Possession and Murder in the Countryside: Rural Spirit Cults in Taishō Japan” in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2 (2004).

Kobayashi Masaru – Hidden History of the Black Ocean Societies, 2003

Claims links between spiritist children’s schools and nationalist cults.

Okano Tomoko – Spiritist Crimes of the Empire: Child Mediums and State Secrets, 2010

Based on interviews with descendants and recovered police testimonies.

Yomiuri Shinbun, Sept 11–14, 1934: “Asakusa Lens Sect Under Fire”