of the most extreme kind, a cult of personality beyond anything Stalin or Mao could have imagined, a country as closed off to the world and as secretive as they come, keeping both the outside world and its own people completely in the dark about one another—a true hermit kingdom. ...
and the object of worship called a Go-Shintai that is enshrined in a Jinja is where the god temporarily resides during the god’s stay on earth. Also, the verb “matsuru” means to create a place like this…