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Tenrikyo 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 Prefecture

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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 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.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
Tier 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.
Notes
Tenrikyo 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.
Citation
Author
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Publisher
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters
Publication Year
2005
URL
https://www.tenrikyo.or.jp/en/newsletter/html/200510/saikyutai.html
Source Type
organization primary source
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Tenrikyo, Religions

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..."

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