Onisaburo made another pronouncement on December 22, 1918 to the effect that "three years from now if you are not very careful a terrible devil will bewitch you. In the year of the bird an unprecedented and not to be repeated misfortune will befall Henjo Nyoshi(= Onisaburo), so I am warning you in advance.

The "year of the bird" is 1921, "Henjo Nyoshi" is Onisaburo, and, on February 11 (National Foundation Day), 1921, Shohei Fujinuma, Chief of Kyoto Prefectural Police Headquarters, issued an emergency summons, assembled 110 policemen, and, in the early hours of the following morning led a combined force of approximately 250 policemen, with additional recruits from Ayabe and Fukuchiyama, in a raid on Omoto. This was the first suppresion of Omoto.

Erecting three stone monuments, prepared some time previously, on the summit of the hill, Honguyama, in Ayabe, Onisaburo warned that, "Ten days from now a great incident will occur and develop on a world scale."

"This year," Onisaburo said, "is 1931 according to the Western calendar, and is therefore the beginning of war (in Japanese the numerals 1, 9 and 3 can be read i-ku-sa, which means war, and the final 1 can be read hajime, which means beginning), and this year is also the 2591st year after the accession of the first Japanese Emperor, and therefore is the beginning of Hell (the numerals 2, 5 and 9 can be read ji-go-ku, which means Hell)." In the same year, Onisaburo republished his book of prophecies Mizu no Shinka, which had caused such a commotion in the Taisho period.

This book contained highly provocative material such as "The Land of the Gods... unassailable by other lands, the land of plenty created by the Gods, this has become a dream of the past." Triggered off by the bombing of the Manchurian Railway, connected to the "Siberian route" which according to Mizu no Shinka the "perverted spirits" would take, war with America and a world war were imminent. ("And presently Japan will be hit by a rain of American bombs without number. The people will ford a river of blood....") Not surprisingly, the highly sensitive authorities were indignant. As early as February 1932, the book was banned.

Onisaburo had foreknowledge of the outbreak of the supperssion. He had made prophetic remarks about the destruction of the Gekkyuden ("Palace of the Moon") to the mason Taguchi and to Okuni and others, and would give warning hints to all assembled at ceremonies, pointing to fu ji oracles or sudden blizzards as signs. He would also order the executives to cut their long hair and shave their beards, give followers advice on their conduct and order them to pray more fervently morning and evening.

When the three stone monuments were erected on Mt. Hongu, Onisaburo said, "When these monuments are erected, Manchuria will stir, and then the whole world will move, like this," waving his right arm round and round in the air. He also said, "Then Omoto will cease to exist on the earth, and later the real Omoto will come into being." This was on September 8, Showa 6 (1931). Ten days later, the Manchurian Incident occurred, leading to war between China and Japan, which in turn escalated to the Great East Asian War. Also. in accordance with the latter remark of Onisaburo, Omoto indeed ceased to exist on the earth as a result of the second suppression, to make a new start the year after the end of the war as Aizen-en (Garden of Love and Brotherhood).

Onisaburo said, "On the day I left prison (= Aug. 7, Showa 17 [1942]), Japan's defeat in the war began."

On this very day, American forces landed on Guadalcanal, and the first naval battle of the Solomon Islands began. America launched their first major counterattack. The battle of Guadalcanal, together with that of Midway two months earlier, helped turn things around in favor of the United States.

To the followers who came to see him, Onisaburo would say with emphasis, "There will be no divine help in this war," "This war is a war between devils, so do not get involved," and concerning the pitiless destruction of the Omoto headquarters he commented, "The same will happen to Japan, in Tokyo as it did in Kameoka, and at Ise Shrine as it did in Ayabe."

To the followers in Hiroshima he said, "Reclaimed land is dangerous," and ordered them all to evacuate the area. He also warned of what was going to happen to Nagasaki.

Onisaburo would say, "They did all this to Omoto and don't even come to apologize. So Japan will be attacked by the foreign enemy and will be beaten." "They destroyed Omoto's sanctuaries, so the Imperial Palace and Ise Shrine will be attacked from the air." As for the national policy of "carrying through the holy war to a victorious conclusion," his comment was, "God dislikes killing. Omoto will not cooperate in the war."

Onisaburo would often say things like, "Omoto is a model of Japan and Japan is a model of the world. Therefore Japan will be defeated and disarmed, and this will become a model for the disarmament of the world." "Omoto is a model, so the defendants will all be found innocent, but the Japanese responsible for the war will not be spared, or those who are spared will for the most part be driven out of public life." He even expressed his concern about things further ahead with remarks like, "Germany and Japan will fall together, and after that America and the USSR will start fighting."

Telling soldiers leaving for service overseas, "Fire your guns into the air," he would give them advice according to their respective destinations, and he would tell those remaining at home which places would be attacked and which would be safe, and ordered those living in certain districts or cities to evacuate before it was too late. It is in fact quite impossible to tell how many people were saved from "glorious death" and enemy attacks on the Pacific islands, in Southeast Asia, in the Philippines, in China, in Okinawa and on the Japanese mainland, by Onisaburo's timely warnings.

To troops leaving for the front, Onisaburo issued special amulets on which were written the words, "Victory to the Enemy." Of course these were a serious problem, and when it was rumored that there would be a raid by the police or the military police, Onisaburo's attendants became extremely nervous. Ryojin Mori and his son Kiyohide would stay up nearly until dawn sorting through papers looking for the incriminating charms so that none would be found. As for Onisaburo, he was quite unperturbed and would reach for an amulet lying nearby and casually write "American leaflet" next to the words "Victory to the Enemy" (towards the end of the war, America dropped large numbers of leaflets on Japan saying that the Allies would win), as if this would exculpate him.