#well done Tetsuya Yamagami

[urgency-tile]

"Most successful assassination in history" or however the meme goes.

Anyway, this does rule, the Unification Church are a famous example of the type of cult that abuses the tax exempt status of religions, so good riddance! (X)

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Sun Myung Moon abused the Japanese sense of loyalty.

from about 2014 Having a Japanese husband, I have lived in that strange twilight existence in which one becomes simultaneously subjected to the “Japanese world” and the “Western world.”

One thing that we “Japanese-mix” families get is lots of the Japanese guilt-tripping. For years, we had a double financial strain, as we were expected to give to both the church and kodan. Not long back, we did our taxes and found out we had donated 3 times my annual income, (and more than 20 percent of our combined income) to the two organizations… This pales in comparison to the Japanese in Japan who have “norms” of giving every month that exceed their total monthly income. I remember at one time, every family was supposed to give $2,500 per month—and the pressure exerted to enforce this was unrelenting, bearing more similarity to the Yakuza than to any religious organization. ...

Being Japanese, in our movement, is a sort of living martyrdom. There is a double messaging “Japanese are the only real loyal members” along with “The Japanese are the worst criminals in providential history.” It’s a tightrope they have to walk, knowing full well they are being asked for superhuman effort, exorbitant financial contributions and irrational obedience…but also accepting blame for every sin, failing and bad outcome.

This method worked during WWII, to compel soldiers to fight to the death, even getting into planes with only enough fuel to get them to their target, and with the order and the quasi-religious commandment that their certain death would be made meaningful by crashing their plane into the enemy ship or base. The Kamikaze pilots became the symbol of the megalomania of the Japanese militarists

It seems that in the era after Father’s passing, the Japanese are being seen as the group to control. No information is allowed to go to them; if someone hears a rumor they are supposed to report it to the church leaders, and the person who shared the rumor is either pressured to shut up, or be shunned. Until now, most in Japan have never heard about the reality of Tatiana In-Jin, or Justin Kook-Jin, or Sean Hyung-Jin. On the other hand, they have been told that Preston Hyun-Jin has done all kinds of evil deeds…he is being painted as the source of all the problems, the automatic scapegoat for any issue. Just to speak or meet or read anything not from the leaders is cause for suspicion and ostracization.

The real issue isn’t independent access to information, or theology, or loyalty to Mother. It is money. More than anything, they want the Japanese to keep giving…and not to find out how the money has been wasted. All the information about Cheongpypyeong, or about the court cases, is vigorously suppressed. ...

But what I feel badly about is to see our Japanese brothers and sisters deliberately sequestered and fed a “party line,” in order to keep them guilty and financially burdened. I would like the “noonday sun” to reach Japan.

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Sun Myung Moon:

 “As you know, our Japanese Church has been selling their houses and all their assets to support our activities in America. If you’re not sure about it, go and visit Japan and see for yourself. By the same token, if our American members, all of you, are willing to sell your houses and assets in order to save South America, and contribute the money to help the poor people there, then the unification between North America and South America will naturally take place.”


December 22, 1994 – The Leaders’ Meeting at East Garden


Translator – Peter Kim

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After Tetsuya Yamagami’s mother was recruited into the Unification Church her three children had nothing to eat.


Ashamed to be Korean

Shocking video of UC of Japan demanding money – English transcript

Moon extracted $500 million from Japanese female members

Moon church of Japan used members for profit, not religious purposes

Suicide of Japanese ‘Moon money mule’ in Uruguay; mother of three children

Japanese woman recruited by the Moon church and sold to a Korean farmer

Atsuko Kumon Hong “suicide / murder” 2013