ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a comparative study of two cases that concern celebrity representation, 1 authority and Japanese religion. The first concerns a small religious group named Jiu 璽宇 that achieved brief notoriety in the first years of the Allied Occupation after an incident was reported widely in mainstream newspapers. The second concerns the pronouncements of the multi-media phenomenon and celebrity fortune teller Hosoki Kazuko 細木数子, and an Internet article and critical blog that first appeared in 2007.
