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My friend, Keisuke Togawa, said this is an advertisement for a Buddhist school. Wikipedia entry for Bukkyo University: ...(佛教大学 Bukkyō daigaku?) is a private university in Kita-ku, Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1912, and it was chartered as a junior college in 1949. Bukkyo means Buddhism in Japanese Language. This university's philosophy is based on Pure Land Buddhism.

Not "the big one." For you non-Americans, each state has a Primary election. This establishes which candidate each state prefers as the nominee at the party's convention this summer. This time, most likely Biden as Democrat and Trump as Republican. (The State Primary also elects people for local positions like County Commissioners, Judges of the Circuit Court, State Legislators, State Treasurer, etc.) Maybe other countries have this Primary system. If so, that's probably the only thing you have in common with our ridiculously long and complicated one. Our TV campaign ads are the WORST. Right now the Oregon Republicans are running non-stop ads regarding their thoughts about gun control (too restrictive!), stopping immigration from Mexico, supporting you-know-who no matter what he does, and fear-mongering about Sen. Nancy Pelosi. I have to listen to these because I'm in a hugely Republican (though sparsely populated) part of Oregon, but I'm getting better at tuning them out. Mind you, Democrat's ads aren't great to listen to, either, but I don't want to throw bottles at the TV.