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Inoue's Ghostbuster
Inoue saw yokai as a crutch holding back the nation. He created his own area of research called yokai gaku or yokai studies. Inoue wasn't necessarily some crotchety old hater of all things wondrous. But he was a Buddhist in the scholar and he just didn't think that monsters fell into that category.