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Two Hundred Sixty Eight Truckloads in Three Days

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Tenrikyo's own newsletter gives an unusually granular account of one deployment: after Typhoon Nabi flooded roughly 2,000 houses in Miyazaki Prefecture in September 2005, 310 members of the Corps' Headquarters unit took part in relief work on 12 and 14 September, deploying ten two-ton trucks with five more added as the operation grew. Over three days they removed 268 truckloads of flood debris from the Komatsu district alone, while the Yamaguchi Diocese Corps mobilized separately on 10 and 16 September.

That level of detail, unit counts, truck numbers, specific dates and a named district, is not typical of how disaster relief organizations describe their own work, and it lets the Nabi response stand as a documented case study of the Corps' method rather than a general claim of activity.

The Corps' largest deployments are not confined to one storm. It mobilized thousands of members nationwide after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, an operation of a different scale from the Miyazaki flooding but drawing on the same trained, diocese-organized structure the 2005 response demonstrates in granular detail.

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Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, Tenrikyo Church Headquarters, 2005View the Source
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