Japan begins investigation into church in wake of Shinzo Abe killing - BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2022
- The Japanese government has begun an official investigation into the Unification Church months after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead, allegedly by a man who had a grudge against the group.
There have been recent revelations about links between the religious group and the governing Liberal Democratic Party.
The church has been under scrutiny since Abe's assassination in July, with the suspect saying his family had been bankrupted by donations to the group.
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The only thing I'm shocked and surprised about this whole thing is international press saying this is somewhat a revelation that came after Shinzo Abe's assassination... it might have thrown everything more on public view and international scrutiny, but it's not like Japanese citizens didn't already know or at least suspected about all of this.
Perhaps I'm mixing things up here, but as far as I know, the links between LDP and the Unification Church, along with several other ultra nationalist and ultra conservative organizations, has been well known and reported for decades now. The "church" itself has an ideology that aligns itself with several policies including anti-LGBT stuff, nationalistic policies, policies regarding the militarization and changes to the constitution, revisionist material in schools, among several other stuff.
Mind you, I'm not sure if there was already something about the Unification Church specifically, but it's the same radical groups and the same base mentality. Basically speaking, it's the sort of cult that ultra nationalist and ultra conservatives would gather together to influence politics.
Those things might sound separate, and perhaps they are a bit, but make no mistake - it's a church founded on anti-communist stance, which might sound fine at first, but what this actually means is that it's a very pro conservatism and pro nationalism cult, basically. And it's very likely that the groups with a hard fringe-like political stance also participate in the very same cult. You have extreme ideologies mixed up among all those groups involved with the LDP.
For people who never heard about the Unification Church but watched some cult documentaries, you will have heard about the "Moonies". It's often listed right along with famous others like Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, People's Temple and Scientologists.
That's what the Unification Church is. It's a cult that has a long history of exploiting followers until they are penniless, a cult that formed bonds with very powerful people to gain political influence and money, it was investigated in the past by US House of Representatives for trying to gain political power.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church#Criticisms_of_Moon
So, don't let the name fool you - they changed it a few times to avoid the negative association. It's not a church, it's a cult. A huge cult with a long history of malfeasance. This is not the same as a president saying he is Christian or something like that. This is a political party aligning itself to something like Scientologists, KKK, or some other radical group. To make things even worse, as some will know, Japan is largely a non-religious country. Christians are minority, and the predominant religions, Shintoism and Buddhism, are seen more for traditional and cultural backgrounds, and less as actual religion and faith.
Here, some docs on the Unification Church for those interested
ruclips.net/video/XIS-RE3gO64/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/slFUtQQM1Ow/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/n_JhtYm3-zY/видео.html
Sounds like a made up story for a Prime minister in charge during Fukushima.. & giving too much info 🙄 & they think people are stupid. How terrible
In addition to Unification Church, some Japanese leftists suspect that religious right-wing groups such as the Japan Conference and the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership had an influence on Mr. Abe's beliefs.
Things to know
:unification church is from South Korea. (Unification originally means the unification of South Korea and North Korea and as they got power it extended to the unification of world). For now, they have more than 3million members around the world including 600,000 Japanese and 300,000 Koreans,100,000 American. The funny thing is they have strong anti-communist policy but they have had good relationship with North Korea leaders. The founder of the church even met Kim IL sung personally and they have a church in North Korea as well. North even sent letters for condolences when the founder was dead. And Abe was one of famous anti-south Korean politician but he had strong connection to the church made by Korean. What an irony! I think when it comes to money and benefit from unification church, Japanese and North Korean leader is so honest. 🤣
@@user-gu3zf4st9f
Abe made connections with the Unification Church to rescue people abducted by North Korea
and sent a video message to UPF, an affiliate of the Unification Church, as a means of making connections with the President of the United States at that time.
But he should have sought other means.
The reason why a lot of people will be coming new to this story is partly because BBC hasn’t reported it until now. It didn’t mention the tie between the late PM Abe and the Unification Church even in the coverage on his national funeral. I don’t think BBC has chosen not to report the news, but it simply didn’t have good resource of information. I have some solutions; ask a couple of Japanese people or read a few articles from Japanese newspapers. If there is a problem with the language, Guardian has some good articles.
NHK World Japan, The Japan Times, Japan Today will be good for those who are interested in Abe’s news. However, I suspect BBC didn’t have a good source of information because it can gather information from Japanese news agencies or by itself.
The Guardian has the money and fund Chinese Communist Party! The China's affairs reporter of the Guardian is working for CCP to gather information, so he live in the UK rather than China to report 'China's affairs' news.
Rupert "Wing Commander" Hayes should have picked up the story much earlier.
Puppets are in all governments. But latest since the pandemic religion we know them.
That's why we need TRIPLE ASSESSMENT for a better sorting of power assignment.
NOBODY IS DUMB reality is they could not beat ABE in an election. They found someone who had A LOT OF DEBT and made him a offer he could not and did not refuse. They found someone who happen to be a munition expert... the chances of that. LOOK the Japanese think like everyone else. If your parent went into debt with the church who are you going to take that debt up with THE CHURCH or the dam prime minister. The prime minister does not have your money the church does...so it make no sense. Someone with protest would go after the head of the dam church, his killing by this means does not make any sense. People want to act like Japanese politics is not dirty, when clearly it is.
This young Japanese man has changed the way politics will be done in the future in Japan.
not really abe wasnt inoffice and his party still in power , abe shinzo was just phenomal figure cuz he long lasting pm , their alot of japanese pm who got assisinated before him
@@docaz9453 excuse me Abe i believe was the current prime minister of the country.
@@My2CentsYall abe had retired when he was assassinated
@@My2CentsYall He hadn't been for quite a while at that point.
@@docaz9453 be quite.
結果的に、外国人が日本で蔓延るカルト問題について知ってもらう良い機会となったな…
韓国人として韓国の類似宗教が日本でこれほど影響力が大きいのは本当に驚きですね。
Yeah, I had never heard of the "unification church" until it was pointed out to me in the comments of a video about Abe's assassination. I emphasise that I learnt about it in the comments, and not the video itself, even though it was already known at that time :|
ウン、そうだよ
Its crazy coz I only get to know this culty thing because I experienced one of its Japanese members. Literally was brainwashed by its doctrines and chose to be loy instead of fighting for our love
Politicians are out of touch and insulated from the struggles of the common man, until they are confronted by reality in the most extreme way possible. Only then do they do what is required.
Ok Mr Philosophy
@@AlphoricYou have room temperature IQ. If the room was a walk-in freezer.
I wonder why the name of the cult is not written in the title of this BBC video.
Even the female reporter here just says “church”. Seems like avoiding saying the name.
already mentioned its name is Unification Church, members are called Unificationists, or "Moonies“
The founder of the cult is a Korean, he wants to reunify North and south Korea, which is why he took the name.
He preached religion in Japan and urged more Japanese to donate money to atone for japan's past crimes in Korea
@@stunstar4553 Wrong wrong wrong. Name mean unification of chritianity. Not Korea.
They didn't ask money for past crimes. Their japanese political ties is with the party that hates Korea. Abe denied war crimes against Korea. And you're saying they used his video messages to convince people to pay for war crimes? Have some common sense.
That church has been deemed as heresy in Korea. They don't give a fuck about Korea.
旧統一教会
@@stunstar4553 makes alot of sense why they would do this then considering Abe would be like the opposite to that
Japanese here.
This topic started being discussed *right after* the incident on Japanese media and have consistently been trending for months.
If you are interested in international politics and this is your first time to hear the story, well… you really, really need to expand your source of information.
care to give us a source of information, oh knowledgable oracle....
lmfao
Also Eat bacon fat doesn't make you fat.
Trust me, I'm a fatologist.
Agreed. This has been all over English-language news out of Japan for months. The BBC is wildly late on this topic.
While western media do cover the story of the church's controversial link with Japan's ruling party, it is nowhere near as "frequent" as Japan's local news agencies. Some lesser but still reliable western media like Vox and TL:DR News don't bother with this topic at all.
I think the main reason is that this drama is not as trendy as other news in the western societies. In the US particularly, the equivalent GoP's tie with the evangelical, while vastlt unpopular to the left, isn't a taboo at all.
Ochin chin desu
Maybe I read more international news, but I heard immediately first week that it was due to his church ties. I think even from bbc itself. Maybe they’re just re-reporting as it’s back in the cycle due to a recent police investigation 🤷♂️. What a ‘suprise’ major right wing party has ties to conservative religious group, call me shocked…
Even if the church is “corrupt” I think the son is insane to have killed someone for this. Old women have donated their life’s savings upon death to the church (any church) for as long as it’s been a thing, perhaps she just didn’t want to give them any money… I’ve heard all about my family in the past doing the same, and much like this murderer, the living family members were very annoyed, but you aren’t entitled to anything just because of relations, if they chose to give that money away then they chose to.
Finally some good journalism in the public interest and all it took was a horrifying murder.
Never give money to God (any god) until god proves he or she needs a place to live or anything to eat.
I agree. George Carlin said about organized religion and their God: He loves you and he needs money. He always needs money! He's all powerful, all knowing but somehow he needs money 😂😂
@@lemon1657 Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
- Voltaire
This has been reported for a while in other places... it's just BBC that's slow to get the information.
What.
Gonna be very dodgy no doubt. With their laws against defamation. They're screwed.
Good, cult leaders should be prosecuted
shh..they will call you a islamphobe or christlikestotouchlittlechilderenphobe for that!
The cult founder is already dead. The current leader (the founder's widow) would probably never set foot in Japan again, given that the suspect allegedly tried to target her and the huge popularity of the suspect in Japan.
What took them so long?
Weird moment when Japanese believe Korean Moonies is Jesus resurrection.😅
We don’t believe it. Its more of a historic thing that goes back to the end of WW2. (I can explain if you want me to.)
But the average Japanese has no connection with this stupid cult except for the fact that the government is corrupt.
@@user-od8ck5uk7s if half of government cabinet involved in this cult,it is really a threat to Japan security ,more dangerous than North Korea threat.😄
Many Japanese people are not as hawkish as Abe. They may not want to discuss the Japan's war crimes committed in other Asian regions, but can be very sympathetic when being confronted. The church specifically target this group of Japanese people to guilt-trip them into donating all of their wealth to cleanse the bad karma of the invasion.
Interesting.
its not a church if donations bankrupt the donor.
nor when they compel you ... its no longer donations OR a church.
Similar to ties between Christian nationalist organization The Family and our top political leaders in the US. Also similar to several supreme court justices' ties to radical Catholicism, eg Opus Dei. Can't they govern without making their god a scapegoat?
I would say Scientology is a better example than Christian nationalism
more convenient to blame the imaginary friend.
@pizzajona you can't even teach kids about evolution in Texas
you're telling me that's not Christan nationalism
@@Freshcornpop To be honest, we have evolved beyond evolution. We are at a stage where we can manipulate genes artificially (eg GM crops). We can come up with weapons to kill any living organism. We can even escape the planet if it is going to be destroyed. It no longer matters whether evolution is taught or not.
But we have not evolved beyond hubris, pride, greed, selfishness, etc. So if religion can help people, then so be it.
@@pizzajonahave you heard about mega churches, they take peoples money so they can have their own private jets so they don't have to ride with us commoners.
The US should investigate mega churches but we have that freedom of religion bill, would be a pain to deal with the backlash.
This wasn't an actual religious church but a cult with a political agenda.
Al Jazeera reports news in Japan better than BBC.
Religious leaders, politicians & money, what can go wrong ?? They be at this for decades = doy on top of duh...
Since B.C times !!!
Captain Kirk would have been proud of the technique used.
Needs to be an investigation in South korea
Puppets are in all governments. But latest since the pandemic religion we know them.
That's why we need TRIPLE ASSESSMENT for a better sorting of power assignment.
Hi
Is this the the Church that released its own anime movies???
Does this make the killer a hero?
Yes
Really more of a martyr for a cause long abandoned by many in the Japanese public. His killing of Abe and pointing the finger at the cult definitely did spark an uproar in Japanese society though. There must always be someone held responsible in that country. I doubt the killer thought that far, he just wanted some catharsis, but the effect is inevitably poetic.
岸田首相の支持率が下がっているのは相次ぐ政治と金の不祥事発覚も影響しています。
岸田氏のような誠実な人に首相を早々にやめてほしくない。安倍の任期を越えるぐらい頑張って欲しい。自分の信念を貫いて、日本の政治を牽引して欲しい。ただ国葬は中止するべきでしたが。
@@virgorose6490 実際岸田首相の性格は悪くないと思うんですが、首相として適任かって言われると…
素直にうんとは私は言えないですね
I still can't understand why the killer picked to kill the former prime minister rather (an affiliate to the group) rather than a leader of the group.
The suspect said he tried number of times to target the leader of the group, but there was little to no opportunity for him to get close to the leader of the cult. That is why he switched target to Shinzo Abe and went for him when he was giving election speech in the public.
It's crazy when it's easier to get to a ex political leader than a cult leader.
@@BrianHSC Which is another indication that it is a cult.
@@BrianHSC
He got angry when he saw a video message Abe sent to UPF, an affiliate of FFWPU, as if to endorse the activities of WPU. Also
He allocated votes from WPU followers to a certain LDP candidate in a proportional representation election.
@@user-wb6ho7ms2x I know that already. And has nothing to do with what I said.
turut berduka cita..
Religion and Politics
Shinzo Abe is now with King Kai training to be Ultimate Mystic Shinzo Abe.
Matthew 24:11
And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
Thank you
Guess the killer got what he wanted murder does pay.... 😁😁
wtf
Yup so fake no?
Scientology vibes
The situation is more serious.
@@lober1a i can see them murdering someone
@@spoon4956 I have little knowledge of Scientology because it is not widely known in Japan, but I would like to know what incidents they have been involved in and how they are viewed.
@@lober1a i haven't done much research so i'll tell you what i know. members pay them to find "lost memories from previous lives". it's all pseudoscience crap. they are known for stalking ex members.
It is worse than Scientology given the actual international influence it holds. Donald Trump almost always makes appearance in the church's affiliated events.
Alloh raxmatiga olgan boʻlsin. Uzbekistan
Just like opus dei.
Uh oh. Moonies. Blue Fin Tuna funds their plan. They are involved in the global Sushi market to the point of making Blue Fin Tuna endangered. Source: Vanity Fair article on the endangered Blue Fin.
Yeahh....fascinating story behind rev moon.
Happy he died.( mr moon)
@@00Julian00 His was a horrible story. I bet a few of his impoverished cult followers had similar feelings.
I gave up on religion decades ago, and I'm never going back. This is why.
god let his priests rape his altar boys under his roofs every night - evil god
christian nations - mother uk n son usa colonies n bases circle earth - war around non stop - evil god
Not UC but PRC
Whenever I hear about a religion story, *any* organised religion story, I’m comforted by the words of George Carlin: “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” 🤣
Life is a test.
@@attari56 I’ll attest to that!
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
god is beginning to sound like santa lmao
edit: oh yeah santa also has a naughty and nice list
@@spoon4956 At least Santa gives you presents, ffs! 🎅
@@titteryenot4524 you're not wrong. what does god give you? he won't drop you into a pit of fire? he's like someone who would take someone's baby and tell them to prays him or he would drop the baby off a cliff, then gets mad when they don't pray to him enough.
This is Japan. 🇯🇵
Yes yes yes it's finally going to happen, take down the moonies!!!
Japan is a tolerant country that recognizes "the worldview of an uncle who thinks he is the Messiah" as a religion.
Please trip to Japan and make your messianic debut😂😂😂
Sadly karma caught up as the murderer held his maternal grandfather responsible for allowing the unification church to come to Japan. Who was Abe ' s grandfather? the suspect class A war criminal, Kishi, who held absolute control of Manchuria in 1930s in China which had become a puppet state for Japan. The japanese even named him "Monster of the Shōwa era"
Wiki:
Accordingly, the Japanese conscripted hundreds of thousands of Chinese as slave labor to work in Manchukuo's heavy industrial plants. In 1937, Kishi signed a decree calling for the use of slave labor to be conscripted both in Manchukuo and in northern China, stating that in these "times of emergency" (i.e. war with China), industry needed to grow at all costs while guaranteeing healthy profits for state and private investors.[27] Starting in 1938 and continuing to 1945, about one million Chinese were taken every year to work as slaves in Manchukuo.[28] The harsh conditions of Manchukuo were well illustrated by the Fushun coal mine, which at any given moment had about 40,000 men working as miners, of whom about 25,000 had to be replaced every year as their predecessors had died due to poor working conditions and low living standards.[23]
Oof. Talk about karma. What did turn him into a monster and decide to kill a prime minister? This monster who killed the PM decided that the aftermath would bring down the Moonies.
@@RickRobinCagnaan you haven't read the story yet on how his mother was brainwashed into donating all her money (inheritance money as well) to the univerfication Church and bankrupted the family when the murderer was only a teenager who was forced to work without going to college and his sister later also committed suicide?
I said it is sad and terrifying because it was family karma from Abe grandfather, a concept that is very familiar in confucian culture where the sins committed by one family member would be carried to its subsequent generations, There are too many incidents in history where the off springs of mass murderer die prematurely with freak accidents like there is a curse.
@@jackjhmc820 if that is so, this man had been past the breaking point when he committed the very single act of domestic terrorism.
By killing Shinzo Abe, he made sure he would bring down not just the Unification Church, but also the politicians connected to it. His action might as well divide Japan.
🤔🤔🤔
bbc can make yakuza run churches
Japan has a frankly bizarre penchant of rewarding political assassins.
League of Blood/ Otoya Yamaguchi/ May 15th incident - all of them provoked responses which were broadly favourable to the assassins and their goals.
A completely baffling dynamic.
The guy who shot Reagan wasn't punished either. What happened to whoever threw the shoe at Bush?
Cults rule the world
I think you needed an ‘n’ there.
@@titteryenot4524 what
@@prodigalsun1678 *?
wait, some rando said it was secret rich people the other day, another said it was lizard people, who to believe ??!!??
huh
No comment on the English Church.
That's rich.
bs reporting; allegations but no content
😂😂😂 classic .. few to many around the world should be investigated ...
FYI
日本国憲法
The Constitution of Japan
第一章 天皇
CHAPTER I. THE EMPEROR
第一条天皇は、日本国の象徴であり日本国民統合の象徴であつて、この地位は、主権の存する日本国民の総意に基く。
Article 1.The Emperor shall be the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, deriving his position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power.
第二条皇位は、世襲のものであつて、国会の議決した皇室典範の定めるところにより、これを継承する。
Article 2.The Imperial Throne shall be dynastic and succeeded to in accordance with the Imperial House Law passed by the Diet.
第二十条信教の自由は、何人に対してもこれを保障する。いかなる宗教団体も、国から特権を受け、又は政治上の権力を行使してはならない。
Article 20.Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all.No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority.
何人も、宗教上の行為、祝典、儀式又は行事に参加することを強制されない。
No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious act, celebration, rite or practice.
国及びその機関は、宗教教育その他いかなる宗教的活動もしてはならない。
The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity.
第八十九条公金その他の公の財産は、宗教上の組織若しくは団体の使用、便益若しくは維持のため、又は公の支配に属しない慈善、教育若しくは博愛の事業に対し、これを支出し、又はその利用に供してはならない。
Article 89.No public money or other property shall be expended or appropriated for the use, benefit or maintenance of any religious institution or association, or for any charitable, educational or benevolent enterprises not under the control of public authority.
He hated all religion and was looking for a religious figure to kill...who was he actually trying to kill?
🌺
shebi meka tamoa
say my pikin don go join cult ?
Ha! You want to bam ba?
You wanna chill with the big boys
Now you dey run kiti kiti
You dey run kata kata
No fit drink water drop cup
Ah hey! Shebi you see how the thing goes
It’s cult not church
it's about the same scam.
@@kaladan1890 Exactly. What's that classic equation? 🤔🧐
Cult + Time = Religion
@@lemon1657 i think nowadays it's about a number threshold , hence the religion of scientology
@@kaladan1890 Do they have such high numbers though outside of Hollywood? I thought they just blackmailed or bribed the IRS to classify then a religion. I think they can't grow exponentially in number like Christianity because they're so damn greedy with their fees. They suck their member's money dry so poor people really can't afford to join their fake church. They're the most obviously fake not just because of the blatant greed but McDonald's is older than Scientology so I might as well worship Ronald 😂😂
@@lemon1657 wait ... are you saying you don't praise the almighty ronald ? ;p
scientology may not be on the christian or muslim level of scammed morons but they somehow managed to spread a lot, they 🤢have some 🤢🤢 church in canada 🤮🤮🤮 freedom is a double edge sword sadly ...
LOL
ah yes peaceful Christians once again
Once again, your stupidity knows no bounds they’re not Christian
@@whenemowascool did you watch the video? It's about Abe being murdered because he called out a Christian church and this assasination revealed widespread corruption of Japan's political system infiltrated by that church. Which information did you miss exactly? You are a clown. Church of Unification is Christian
Lmao
Has nothing to do with Christianity actually, but I can see why the word church has rustled all sorts of shitflinger feathers.
@@A_Simple_Neurose so what is the Church of Unification a sect of then? Islam?
Need more time then overnight,yakasukas were welcome and drove me around and bought me drinks and I would like to spend more time the gift of a yen 20.$ I spent in alatic city Taj mal ..trump .long time ago
Can I find an Arab here .
Afghan here but count me as Arab cuz they are my brothers anyway
Karma... all western leaders shall taste it
Many religious nuts in the comments coming out with quotes from the bible lol. Any excuse!
I might have missed an important detail about the type of institution this church represents or how it might be a fringe group, but why would members having ties to the church be such a shock? I hear church and think Christianity, and Christianity isn't uncommon in Japan. What creates this dynamic that sounds like a political scandal?
the slightest bit of research would answer this question
Will a normal church have it's member donate every single resources they have..?
It operates as a cult, and there have been multiple allegations of extortion, fraud and forced mass marriages. Through links with the LDP, it holds far more political power than other mainstream religions, and essential engaged in political bribery to protect it's activities and also to block progressive policies.
@@DWJordannn What's the answer?
The church is not normal christian church. The founder claims to be reincarnation of jesus and known for extortion. Altho this church was founded by Korean, it was cast out from Korea and somehow made its way into japan. Possibly by bribing the japanese politicians. And these politicians including Abe, all had hard line foreign policy against Korea.
Turkey will be glad to learn Japan also has a 'FETO' problem. 😁 Perhaps, Japan's problem will make Turkey's one more legitimate - in the Western world.
Very sad it's killing out of spite and hate , church is a reason
church is a scam that use naive people who need to feel like they are part or something ... for money.
It's a cult not church.
@@sjelucten7150 Same thing. Cult + time = Religion.
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山本圭壱と西野未姫かと思った...。
This is not about mr Abe.
About most people in this world. No religions is much more better. Then have more peace for t world and it people. Why need to believe and spend time on thing that we never seen in person. I have a good religion too (Buddhist), I only think about religion when is related. not every morning to night live with it. Why need to learn from religion, this is not stone age. Got schools to teach, manner and all other things.
If want, Worship to sun. it give us life and tomorrow!
Never has there been a more successful assassination. Japan is about to legislate everything the shooter said in his manifesto.
The shooter was definitely wrong and will get senticed. But the ex priminister and de LPD party are also terrible and should have cut ties with the cult a long time ago. Especially since the family of the shooter was not an exception of the terrible nature of the cult. But an example of many more victims of the unification church. It's also very scary knowing that most party members are part of the cult. While the cult is known for it huge political influence on it's members and its dangers nationalistic beliefs.
Don't get me wrong. In Japan, the Unification Church is a small organization with no power whatsoever. Japan won't be affected by the fact that they helped with the election.
Except it is affected. The Unification Church have lobbied against progressive policies like women's and LGBT rights, essentially buying votes against these policies in parliament...
It is not only a question of influence in politics. The Unification Church has claimed that Japan is the devil, that the emperor should get down on his knees in front of founder of a religious sect, and so on. The fact that politicians are involved with such groups is in itself a major problem.
I suggest you watch these if you think it's a small organization.
ruclips.net/video/XIS-RE3gO64/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/slFUtQQM1Ow/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/n_JhtYm3-zY/видео.html
@@lober1a
To control police and violate human rights are serious problems. Japanese constitution say nothing about "the religon of emperor."
If they stop thier organized crime, Imperial family can join the Unification Church and what you says won't be a problem.
A large amount of parlement members are part of the church. Aswell as the previous primeminister was part of the group. The father of the previous primeminister was the one to introduce the church to japan. It might be small. But they have power at the top.
we want imperial japan back
That's what Abe wanted. And he took money from Korean cult religion lmao.
War crimes of the roof