ABSTRACT
Extreme individualists appeared and young people were easily captivated by radical ideas. The spirit of revolt and the pressure of conservative paternalism reacted upon each other. In 1911 the Government convened a meeting of religious leaders representative of Buddhist, Christian, and Shinto Churches, and asked for their co-operation in ameliorating the situation, thereby implying the fight against radicals. Everyone offered up prayer or performed some sort of religious service according to his or her fashion; each group organized its own religious ceremony; murmur of praying and chanting filled the air from earliest morning to late at night. It was an inspiring but pathetic spectacle, the varieties and confused states of prayer or services showing a sad lack of unity among the people in religious faith.
