Home›Sources›Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"SourcesTenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"Tenrikyo's Own Report of the Corps' Response to the September 2005 Typhoon Nabi Flooding in Miyazaki PrefectureCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/tenrikyo-newsletter-miyazaki-relief-2005.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps". Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/tenrikyo-newsletter-miyazaki-relief-2005Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-tenrikyo-church-headquarters-newsletter, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/tenrikyo-newsletter-miyazaki-relief-2005}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThis is Tenrikyo Church Headquarters' own newsletter for October 2005, reporting on the Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps, its volunteer relief organization, published on the religion's official website. Its strength is that it is a contemporaneous account, written close to the events it reports, naming specific truck counts, truckloads and dates that a reader could in principle check against outside disaster-relief reporting from the same period. Its limit is that it remains the religion's own self-published account of its own volunteer organization's work, not independent press coverage of the relief effort, so a claim about the Corps' wider reputation or independently assessed impact needs a source examining that from outside Tenrikyo itself.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (25 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Tier 2: the religion's own dated newsletter report of its own volunteer corps' activity, written immediately after the event. A contemporaneous self-published account rather than independent press coverage, though specific enough in trucks, truckloads and dates to be checked against outside reporting where it exists.NotesWell-attestedTenrikyo Church Headquarters' own newsletter, October 2005 issue, read directly, reporting the Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps' response to flooding from Typhoon Nabi in Miyazaki Prefecture. States 310 members of the Headquarters Corps took part in relief work on 12 and 14 September 2005, that ten two-ton trucks were deployed and five more added, and that 268 truckloads of flood debris were removed from the Komatsu district over three days, alongside further mobilisation of the Yamaguchi Diocese Corps on 10 and 16 September. Classed own-published-statistics: the religion's own dated report of its own volunteer corps' activity.CitationAuthorWell-attestedTenrikyo Church HeadquartersPublisherWell-attestedTenrikyo Church HeadquartersPublication YearWell-attested2005URLWell-attestedhttps://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/200510/saikyutai.htmlSource TypeWell-attestedorganization primary sourceCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithTenrikyo, Religions Well-attested This source names Tenrikyo directly: "This is Tenrikyo Church Headquarters' own newsletter for October 2005, reporting on the Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps, its volunteer relief organization, published on the religion's official..."Source Tenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"Tenrikyo Church Headquarterstier 2Claims Backed By This Source (25 claims)This source backs 25 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicOrganizations, 9 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.Articles, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested19ArticlesTwo Hundred Sixty Eight Truckloads in Three DaysOrganizationsTenrikyo Disaster Relief Hinokishin CorpsSourcesTenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"Holds4ArticlesTwo Hundred Sixty Eight Truckloads in Three DaysOrganizationsTenrikyo Disaster Relief Hinokishin CorpsSourcesTenrikyo Church Headquarters: Newsletter, October 2005, "Disaster Relief Hinokishin Corps"General References2ArticlesTwo Hundred Sixty Eight Truckloads in Three DaysOrganizationsTenrikyo Disaster Relief Hinokishin CorpsComments (0)No comments yet. 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