According to the AI - the total number of fires at a Buddhist temple or Shinto Shrine isn’t far off from the normal trend, but that castrophic total losses is higher than normal.
It’s hard to say if this is intentional arson or not - one has to consider that Japan has seen significant depopulation in rural areas, resulting is less fire fighters in close proximity, but could the rise of total losses could be a result of accelerates being used??
It’s important to keep a rational understanding that correlation does not equal causation, but also not dismiss the possibility of arson entirely.
Especially when you start seeing people complaining about some mom-and-pop not serving “halal” tonkatsu……….. hmmm mmmmm.
A bit odd, don’t you think?
As soon as Muslims started immigrating to Japan, its Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples started burning down, just like the churches in Europe.