I just recently saw a video from a (seemingly) official source in Japan critiquing the new Assassin’s Creed for showing carelessness and desecration of a real-world shrine:

Here’s the link, but my questions are really just:

1. Are there truly no depictions of shrines being destroyed or desecrated in any fictional media in Japan??
2. Are the people in this video actually, like… “officials” who may speak for the people/entirety of Japan, or are they more like just content creators/opinion-piece news people who don’t necessarily reflect the general view of Japanese people?
3. If the above is all true, then what would the equivalent of shrine desecration in Japan be to people in other countries? Or in other words: There are people who seem to be confused about why this shrine desecration in the game is such a huge issue (likely because in America at least, there are tons of movies showing historical landmarks/monuments being destroyed all the time), so what’s something that could help people to understand why the Japanese people take such a huge issue with this (if they actually do)?