Public outrage over Chinese man placing hell money in Japanese temple donation box
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🇨🇳 ChinaNovember 28, 2025

Public outrage over Chinese man placing hell money in Japanese temple donation box

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Originally published bySouth China Morning Post
A Chinese man who placed joss paper into a fortune-drawing money collection box at Japan’s Sensoji Temple has sparked online outrage and criticism of bad tourist behaviour. A video that circulated on social media in November showed the unidentified man putting a piece of joss paper, also known as “hell money”, into the box on the desk where fortune sticks are drawn. Visitors are required to put 100 yen (US$1) into the box to draw from 100 bamboo sticks in a tube. They then need to find the...

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