#unification church in japan

[whatisonthemoon]

MAY 8, 2023

Ninety percent of prefectural assembly members with ties to the Unification Church were re-elected in the unified local elections in April, but their popularity showed signs of waning, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.

The unified elections were the first collective nationwide vote held since the Unification Church came under fire again for its fund-collection methods following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July last year, apparently over his ties to the religious group.

According to an Asahi Shimbun survey conducted in August and September last year, 292 of the 2,314 responding prefectural assembly members acknowledged their connections with the church, now formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

The ties included attendance at Unification Church-related meetings or events, and receiving support from the group in election campaigns.

The terms for 251 church-connected assembly members expired in spring. Of them, 228 sought re-election in the April 9 elections held in 41 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, while 23 members did not run due to age or other reasons.

Of these candidates, 206, or 90.4 percent, were re-elected. Twenty-two members, or 9.6 percent, lost their seats.

Among those re-elected, 47, or around 23 percent, ran uncontested.

More than 80 percent of the church-tied prefectural assembly members were from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Among all 1,111 LDP incumbents who ran in the local assembly elections, 98 members, or 8.8 percent, were defeated.

Of all 228 candidates who confirmed their ties to the church, 118 gained fewer votes than in the previous election, while 42 garnered more ballots.

It is not clear if the church ties affected vote counts for 68 of the candidates because they ran uncontested in either of the two latest elections, or won in a by-election held within the past four years.

However, some candidates lost several thousand to 10,000 votes compared to their tallies in the previous election after their connections with the church became known.

Setsuko Sakuraba, 65, an LDP candidate, sought a second term in the Niigata prefectural assembly from the electoral district of Joetsu city.

But she was defeated in the election after gaining 9,536 votes. That was 2,459 votes fewer than her total in the previous election, when she placed fourth and gained one of the five assembly seats for the city.

Sakuraba had attended Unification Church-related events and received support in her campaign from people connected to the group.

These ties were reported in local newspapers and The Asahi Shimbun.

After her election loss, Sakuraba said about her church ties, “It’s hard to say how much, but there must have been a significant impact (on the election results.)”

She said someone had placed stickers with words “Unification Church endorsed candidate” on her campaign posters in Joetsu city.

About 50 to 60 of these stickers were found, she said.

In the Tochigi prefectural assembly election, 82-year-old Kazuyoshi Itabashi of the LDP was elected for a national record 14th straight time.

Itabashi gained 10,411 votes in the election four years ago, but this time he received 7,674 ballots, down by 2,737.

He also received the fewest votes among the five elected candidates representing the Oyama city and Nogi town electoral district.

“I think there was a slight decrease in votes,” he said after the election.

In September last year, reports surfaced that Itabashi was serving as head of the prefectural association of a church-related organization called the Federation for World Peace.

He resigned from the position.

Before the election, a Buddhist organization that had supported Itabashi told him that it would withhold its support because of his connection to the Federation for World Peace.

The Unification Church’s public relations department told The Asahi Shimbun, “Our organization has never had involvement with specific candidates or political parties.”

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July 2022. Inset: Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, in 1984.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On the last morning of his life, Shinzo Abe arrived in the Japanese city of Nara, famous for its ancient pagodas and sacred deer. His destination was more prosaic: a broad urban intersection across from the city’s main train station, where he would be giving a speech to endorse a lawmaker running for reelection to the National Diet, Japan’s parliament. Abe had retired two years earlier, but because he was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, his name carried enormous weight. The date was July 8, 2022.

In photos taken from the crowd, Abe—instantly recognizable by his wavy, swept-back hair; charcoal eyebrows; and folksy grin—can be seen stepping onto a makeshift podium at about 11:30 a.m., one hand clutching a microphone. A claque of supporters surrounds him. No one in the photos seems to notice the youngish-looking man about 20 feet behind Abe, dressed in a gray polo shirt and cargo pants, a black strap across his shoulder. Unlike everyone else, the man is not clapping.

Abe started to speak. Moments later, his remarks were interrupted by two loud reports, followed by a burst of white smoke. He collapsed to the ground. His security guards ran toward the man in the gray polo shirt, who held a homemade gun—two 16-inch metal pipes strapped together with black duct tape. The man made no effort to flee. The guards tackled him, sending his gun skittering across the pavement. Abe, shot in the neck, would be dead within hours.

At a Nara police station, the suspect—a 41-year-old named Tetsuya Yamagami—admitted to the shooting barely 30 minutes after pulling the trigger. He then offered a motive that sounded too outlandish to be true: He saw Abe as an ally of the Unification Church, a group better known as the Moonies—the cult founded in the 1950s by the Korean evangelist Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Yamagami said his life had been ruined when his mother gave the church all of the family’s money, leaving him and his siblings so poor that they often didn’t have enough to eat. His brother had committed suicide, and he himself had tried to.

“My prime target was the Unification Church’s top official, Hak Ja Han, not Abe,” he told the police, according to an account published in January in a newspaper called The Asahi Shimbun. He could not get to Han—Moon’s widow—so he shot Abe, who was “deeply connected” to the church, Yamagami said, just as Abe’s grandfather, also a prime minister and renowned political figure in Japan, had been.

Investigators looked into Yamagami’s wild-sounding claims and found, to their alarm, that they were true. After a quick huddle, the police appear to have decided that the Moonie connection was too sensitive to reveal, at least for the moment. It might even affect the outcome of the elections for the Upper House of the Diet, set to take place on July 10. At a press conference on the night of the assassination, a police official would say only that Yamagami had carried out the attack because he “harbored a grudge against a specific group and he assumed that Abe was linked to it.” When reporters clamored for details, the official said nothing.

After the election, the Unification Church confirmed press reports that Yamagami’s mother was a member, and the story quickly took off. The Moonies, it emerged, maintained a volunteer army of campaign workers who had long been a secret weapon not just for Abe but for many other politicians in his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which remains in power under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Later that month, the Japanese tabloid Nikkan Gendai published a list of 111 members of parliament who had connections to the church. In early September 2022, the LDP announced that almost half of its 379 Diet members had admitted to some kind of contact with the Unification Church, whether that meant accepting campaign assistance or paying membership fees or attending church events. According to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, 290 members of prefectural assemblies, as well as seven prefectural governors, also said they had church ties. The rising numbers exposed a scandal hiding in plain sight: A right-wing Korean cult had a near-umbilical connection to the political party that had governed Japan for most of the past 70 years.

The Japanese were outraged not just by the appearance of influence-peddling but by a galling hypocrisy. Abe was a fervent nationalist, eager to rebuild Japan’s global standing and proudly unapologetic for its imperial past. Now he and his party had been caught in a secretive electoral alliance with a cult that—it soon emerged—had been accused of preying on Japanese war guilt to squeeze billions of dollars from credulous followers.

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[briteredoctober]

My favorite thing about the assassination of Shinzo Abe with a makeshift shotgun back in 2022 is how the assassin stated his reasoning, and the Japanese population overwhelmingly went "you know, he's not wrong" and started protesting the funeral.

[andallofthemwitches]

Can't be compared. Unification Church scapegoated.

If anything, it seems money and apathy towards the Korean cause is the reason behind the passing of PM Shinzo Abe.

Why?

"Spiritual sales" of "overpriced vases" solicited by the Unification Church were to alleviate the guilt of the Japanese people whose country committed atrocities against the Korean people and taken from the country wholesale. (Not to mention the Chinese.)

Looked it up and the Unification Church's money goes here:

What does this mean?

Tongil means Unification, namely of North and South Korea. Tongil Group is an organization that aims to reunite the divided countries of North and South Korea and the money goes into industry investments that seek improvements in South and North Korean economy for the purpose.

What happened?

(Not to mention everything else Japan did to Korea. Comfort women, attempted eradication of culture, attempted genocide.)

During World War II, the Soviets were told by Japan to instead invade a "Japanese colony" on the island of Sakhalin, where there was a large population of Korean people who had gotten there by boarding Japanese vessels in search of temporary work. They were attacked and never able to come back home to Korea.

At the end of WWII, the Japanese told the Soviets that Korea was a Japanese colony and to go there, not to Japan.

And thereon the 48th Parallel dividing North and South Korea as communist and democratic came to be.

And full circle, this Unification Church is trying to alleviate those strains. They get donations, mostly from Japan. Apathy towards the causes the Unification Church support (Korean reunification) may be involved here in trying to dissolve this church.

Japanese people may have given up fortunes to the Unification Church, leaving family members poorer, but their fortune may have been ill-gotten gains in the first place.

What did it come down to? Money. Families were left poorer because those members of the family who felt guilty paid the Unification Church money as restitution for crimes committed against the Korean people. And those left without an inheritance were bitter against the Unification Church. And PM Shinzo Abe expressed positive words for the Unification Church.

Remember, the Unification Church's aim is to reunite North and South Korea by improving the economy.

The Unification Church is getting scapegoated in Japan so people feel better. Don't let that happen.

As well:

The two situations are different and cannot be compared.

It's good that healthcare is rectifying their actions to what should be done.

Re: the CEO who recently passed.... No comment.

Most politically successful assassination of a head of state by a massive margin

[communist-octoling]

the meme on here thats like "im going to (remembers that suicide jokes only make my mental health worse) kill someone else" is so funny to me because that is literally what happened to the guy who killed shinzo abe. he tried to kill himself because the unification church bankrupted his family, and when he failed he decided to assassinate shinzo abe (who has ties to the unification church)

[purplespacecats]

y'all please for the love of god do not cite the washington times as if it were a legit source they are literally owned and run by the fucking moonies

[hollow-keys]

In 2020, BLM protestors burnt down the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis in response to the murder of George Floyd, and polling showed that 54% of Americans thought it was justified at the time.

In 2022, Yamagami Tetsuya murdered Abe Shinzo, the former Prime Minister of Japan and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, in broad daylight because of his ties to the Unification Church, a predatory cult that ruined his and many others families' lives, which led to the entire country basically saying "this guy has a point," increasing scrutiny of the UC and its ties to the LDP, and the subsequent backlash contributed to the LDP's worst election result since 2009.

In 2024, a currently still free assassin murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, one of the largest health insurance companies in America, and also the one with the highest claim denial rate, leaving the words "deny, defend, depose" on the bullet casings, likely in reference to this, and the people appear to be almost unanimously behind him.

Propaganda of the deed is back, baby.

[collapsedsquid]

Looking forward to the american moonies publishing newspapers about how we need to re-nukeJapan

[marcysdreamydays11]

Tetsuya Yamagami and Mr ceo slainer need to start a secret training camp for how to fuck some toxic CEOs up. CAUSE DAMN

Tetsuya Yamagami MADE HIS OWN FUCKING GUN a RAGGEDY ASS DUCT TAPE WOOD GUN and shot shinzo Abe and that impacted Japan positively of course there's still problems with the shitty unification church but he brought attention to the neglect and abuse of children who have parents part of that weird ass cult err religion

Mr CEO slainer shot bro in BROAD daylight on a busy street and still got away and they still haven't found him yet lmao mr CEO slainer was waiting for his ass he was in New York apparently since late November from a timeline I saw

"Murder is bad!!" crazy coming from a country that has yet to solve its issue on gun violence and tetsuya made a shitty handmade gun and that was in japan which has strict gun laws LMAO

like if you're not gonna solve gun violence against innocent people cough cough kids who probably watch brainrot shorts cough cough

We'll use gun violence against people who deserve it

Virgins shoot random kids who don't do shit and chads get the powerful people who benefit from our society who benefit from making us suffer and do terrible things.

[fantasyinvader]

I've been thinking about the problematic elements to Almyra and... I think I got an answer that isn't complete crap.

Almyra was, even in Houses, not meant to be this ideal country. In his supports with Byleth, Claude reveals he came to Fodlan not to tear down boarders and shit, but to learn from Fodlan in order to make Almyra more accepting of outsiders. The unification stuff came about when he arrived, found out that wasn't the case, and then began blaming the Church (with TWSITD slipping him information to turn him against Rhea likely not being an isolated incident).

Claude is meant to be an outsider, someone not from Fodlan just like the player is. His initial suspicion of the Church is meant to reflect that of the player's, and with him learning to see Fodlan for what it is being his own path to enlightenment. I mean, he talks about going to confirm something with his own eyes in his paralogue, and he's the one to point out the diversity at Garreg Mach as well as how the Church doesn't actually teach isolationism.

In short, Claude was always meant to be something of a gullible idiot. Whereas the player may fall into the trap of supporting Edelgard despite the reveals, Claude taking his initial impressions as irrefutable facts are not the way to enlightenment. Hell, going with the Buddhist themes acting as if something is that concrete and being unwilling to budge in the face of more information is not how to do things. As you learn more, you're views are meant to change. Claude's whole thing of being an outsider is actually a hindrance to him, because it reveals how little he actually knows about his new environment.

If Claude is going around being unsubtle about not being from Fodlan, acting based on his initial assumptions when he came to Fodlan and not confirming things with his own eyes... we have a problem. If he's not going to recognize the problems with his own society and insist that he has the solutions for another one, there's also a problem there.

This isn't just Claude, this is also a message to the players. I've talked before how some of what Edelgard says lands differently in Japan. Japan is a meritocratic society, one where people are less inclined to help those in need because they haven't “earned it.” This kind of outlook has led to various issues within Japanese society, yet Edelgard wants to implement them herself. At the same time, the game hints that the society Edelgard wants to create isn't too far different from Almyra, the society Claude wants to fix, especially with Caspar's Japanese endings.

The game is telling you to see Fodlan, a land it's own creators said they wanted us to immerse ourselves in, for what it truly is. To not just believe the words of Edelgard and TWSITD, but to see things with our own eyes and realize the truth. To simply listen to what the game is actually trying to say, to look at what it is saying is right for Fodlan rather than assert our own beliefs on Fodlan much like Edelgard and the translators do. Because... we're outsiders intruding on Fodlan too, yet we have the power to derail the story in the BE route.

I think that's the point. Claude is supposed to be a parallel for us, the players. Almyra being presented as it is serves as a reminder that our world, our cultures, aren't perfect themselves. We are outsiders to the story, and as such we should look at what the story is saying is the answer rather than forcing our own views onto the game. Fodlan is telling us Edelgard isn't the answer, so that is what we should be acting on. Just like Claude eventually realizes that keeping Fodlan and Almyra separate is the way to go rather than forcing them together and instead learns from Fodlan, we the players should do the same. Keep Fodlan and IRL separate, but take the lessons from Houses back with us to the real world. Because, once more I must remind people, this is a game for middle-schoolers. CERO rating B, ages 12+.

You really think Nintendo is going to tell kids the stuff Edelgard does is good? Even NoA had to change stuff to make her appear more “heroic.” And isn't that really what storytelling is about? passing on messages and morals to the audience? Kinda hard to do that when the audience (or translators) is trying to twist things to suit their own beliefs.

[whatisonthemoon]

2nd Gen Research in Japan

Another post taken from a thread made by Twitter user @nowwarmom https://twitter.com/nowwarmom/status/1642383646848962560

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Morsko and the team of 2nd-gen former Unification Church members have compiled, mapped, and published a database of information on election candidates whose relationships with the Unification Church have been reported in the media. The data includes → 

candidates for governor and ordinance-designated city mayor, as well as candidates for prefectural assembly member and ordinance-designated city assembly member. It also provides links to media reports on what kind of relationship the candidates had with the Unification Church.

More info (in Japanese):

https://twitter.com/morusukochan/status/1642000925232594944

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Mrs. Moon demanded that all UC paid staff resign by October 1st.

News about the Unification Church of Japan Hak Ja Han doesn’t want to pay her staff, but instead use that money to fund her newest temple.

For the past two years donations have been almost zero in Japan. In the midst of a serious financial crisis with no donations from Japan, Mrs Moon is still pouring everything into the Cheonwon Palace at Cheongpyeong. She sold real estate and borrowed from financial institutions.

All church money is being pulled into her temple.

It’s being said that every time Mrs Moon tours the temple to check on the building progress she finds more ways to spend money either in furniture, more elaborate decorations or upgrading tech.

Then there is this Japanese leader who is receiving revelations from Sun Myung Moon in the spiritual world. With passionate yelling he tells members that Moon is a hundred percent supporting Mrs. Moon, and the light from the new temple will transform the evil. This leader is known in Japan for creating a team and a teaching that would help members file for bankruptcy, believing that bankruptcy was a divine law.

In the end Mrs. Moon is running out of money and probably losing membership because of her own greed.

Also her closest two aides, one of which is Mrs. Won Ju McDevitt, are under investigation by the police for tax evasion and embezzlement.

___________________________________

Unification Church President Hak Ja Han issued an emergency directive, “Submit resignation letters en masse!”

통일교 한학자 총재 긴급 지시, “일괄 사직서 내라!”

統一教会の韓鶴子総裁緊急指示「一括辞表を出せ！」

Hak-Ja Han kicked out three of her sons and became the sinless object of worship in the movement founded by Sun Myung Moon

$42million of Donations Gambled Away by Hak Ja Han and Unification Church Leaders in Las Vegas

[spurgie-cousin]

The Unification Church is confusing. Is it a Korean cult? In some pictures, the crowds look mostly Korean, but in others, they look mostly white.

The Unification Church was founded in South Korea around the time of WWII, and spread pretty rapidly there and in neighboring places like Japan until the late 60s and 70s when it started to branch out to Russia, eastern Europe, South America and eventually the United States (esp in areas with big south Korean populations).

One of their big things is to "promote intercultural, interracial, and international cooperation through the Unification world view" which sounds innocent enough, but it's just a PC way to say that they put a big focus on finding people to convert. Once they find someone who they deem convertible (preferably of a different race compared to the majority members of the church) they pull a "Married at First Sight" and marry then to a random church member, in a huge ceremony with tons of other couples, where they basically get married and converted officially at the same time.

So that's why sometimes you see large homogeneous looking congregations with only a small bit of diversity, or vice versa, because diversity is the main thing they're looking for when looking for converts and some church are better at it than others lol.

[memecucker]

Most politically successful assassination of a head of state by a massive margin

[captain-price-unofficially]

Remember kids, political assassinations work!

[brookstonalmanac]

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A Sheep in the Deep (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)

Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (Film; 2012)

Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits (Song; 1979)

Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (Opera; 1881)

Tapestry, by Carole King (Album; 1971)

The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Tom & Jerry (MGM Cartoon; 1940)

The Unruly Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 1945)

Van Halen, by Van Halen (Album; 1978)

A Warm Reception (Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs Cartoon; 1920)

Wooden Money (Aesop’s Film Fable; 1929)

Today’s Name Days

Scholastika, Siegmar (Austria)

Haralampi, Valentin, Valentina (Bulgaria)

Alojzije, Vilim, Vjekoslav (Croatia)

Mojmír (Czech Republic)

Scholastica (Denmark)

Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elli, Ellu (Estonia)

Elina, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elna (Finland)

Arnaud (France)

Bruno, Scholastika, Siegmar (Germany)

Chara, Charalambos, Chariklia, Haralambia, Haralambos, Hariklia, Harilaos (Greece)

Elvira (Hungary)

Arnaldo, Guglielmo, Scolastica, Wilma (Italy)

Paula, Paulīna, Paulīne (Latvia)

Ada, Elvyra, Gabrielius, Girvydas, Vydgailė (Lithuania)

Ingfrid, Ingrid (Norway)

Elwira, Gabriel, Jacek, Jacenty, Scholastyka, Tomisława (Poland)

Haralambie (Romania)

Gabriela (Slovakia)

Escolástica (Spain)

Eugenia, Iris (Sweden)

Austria, Amber, Amelinda, Colt, Colten, Colton, Duran, Durand, Durante, Kolton, Meredith (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Julio Day

National Louis Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 41 of 2025; 324 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 1 of Week 7 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 13 (Geng-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 3 Amshir 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Hackberry (Feb 9-18) [Day 2 of 10]

Hebrew: 12 Shevat 5785

Islamic: 11 Sha’ban 1446

Julian: 28 January 2025

Moon: 96%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 13 Homer (2nd Month) [Apelles)

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 52 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 11 Gray; Foursday [11 of 30]

Week: 2nd Week of February

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 22 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 27 of 29)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 16 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 22 of 28)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 23 of 28)