The Japanese female author Aiko Sato died at her age of 102 this April.
She was well known by Japanese readers as a daughter of her late famous author named Koroku Sato and as a sister of her late brother named Hachiro Sato. She was a member of a famous family.
But what is particular about her is that she had experienced attacks from evil sprits for decades. It had started when she built a second house in Hokkaido (the biggest northern Island of the Japanese archipelago). Then mysterious things happened in the house where she spent summer to avoid heat in Tokyo.
Pieces of furniture in the house moved around mysteriously; the electricity of the house started to work while none was there; and various sounds started to sound. One day when Aiko and her daughter were in the house, the daughter of her daughter, namely the grandchild of Aiko, changed her direction in sleeping in a baby's bed although the grandchild could not move around. Aiko got nervous and irritated so badly. This strange situation continued even when came back to Tokyo. The facsimile machine started to sound and present dark papers without real calling. So, she asked for help from various psychics, she felt that there were evil spirits behind these mysterious and evil events.
Some famous psychic told her that he could see an Ainu man behind Aiko; The Ainu had grudge to mainland Japanese as they had once killed many Ainu people (racially minority Japanese) to take their lands. And the place Aiko built her summer house was a holy place of Ainu people, so that Aiko became the target of those spirits of past Ainu people. What is worse evil spirits of foxes (well known by Japanese as a type of animals with mysterious spirits) joined the Ainu attacking her.
So, Aiko asked leaders of Japanese spiritual association for help. They somehow succeeded in driving evil spirits out of her houses in Hokkaido and Tokyo.
But, it was a Japanese associated with the Japanese shinto religion that could finally conquer those evil spirits. As Aiko was not a Christian, she did not ask for help from Christian priests. But, Japanese shnito religion gave the Japanese strong spiritual power. Aiko was finally relieved and saved. She wrote some stories based on her experiences.
Then after her 60s, 70s, and 80s troubled by evil spirits, she died peacefully this spiring in Tokyo.
After her death, her ground daughter wrote that Aiko was actually a faint-hearted woman though Aiko wrote in her books that she had had fought bravely with evil spirits. Aiko wrote her image she wanted to be in her books; she had fought boldly with various evil spirits with help from psychics and religious men.
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